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Definition of Defensives
1. defensive [n] - See also: defensive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defensives
Literary usage of Defensives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gilbert of the Haye's Prose Manuscript (A.D.1456) by Ramon Llull (1901)
"... thai hald nocht that thai suld bere armes defensives with armes invasives,
till invade na man, ... bathe armes invasives and defensives, that is to say, ..."
2. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1920)
"... and Pershing's design to break through the German defensives between the Meuse
and the Argonne and promptly cut the Metz railroad near Sedan, ..."
3. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1890)
"... in their longest diameter, destitute of roots or defensives and composed of
crowded cruciform spicules of minute size resembling those of P. delicatula. ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... arc true defensives, as well as upon actual invasions. And again, that wars
defensive for religion, I speak, not of rebellions, are most just, ..."
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