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Definition of Protending
1. protend [v] - See also: protend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protending
Literary usage of Protending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. ... Gephyrea: indsamlede paa den Norske Nordhavs-expedition ved D. C by Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, Johan Koren (1881)
"6, a, protending obliquely and intersecting the longitudinal muscles, fig.
6, b, form an extensive oblique layer, fig. 6. c, lying underneath the ..."
2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1844)
"... extreme: and we have next introduced a false professor, who, protending to
strong faith, made his own obstinate self-will the only rule of his conduct. ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Till by the trembling hand of watchful age (A weeping matron, timorous to
affright. And piously fallacious in her care, Protending ..."
4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1858)
"... without protending indeed to establish any new historical facts or to decide
upon the relative merits of contending claimants to invention or discovery, ..."
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