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Definition of Defended
1. defend [v] - See also: defend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defended
Literary usage of Defended
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the same year he defended Emile Zola (qv), accused of libeling the army ...
In 1903 he defended the Humbert swindlers (see HUMBERT SWINDLE) and in 1914 ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"melancholy intelligence of the devastation of Assyria, the ruin of bis palaces,
and the slaughter of his bravest troops, who defended the passage of the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The story of the system of mysticism defended by the monks of Athos in the
fourteenth century forms one of the most curious chapters in the history of the ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"170 Fly, Grecians, fly, your fails and oars employ, And dream no more of
heav'n-defended Troy. ... defended ..."
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