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Definition of Hasty defence
1. Noun. A defense organized while in contact with the enemy or when time is limited.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hasty Defence
Literary usage of Hasty defence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1874)
"... but with his cold formality, interrupted him, the timid man, who all thought
would have mumbled forth a hasty defence, grew bolder and bolder, ..."
2. The Fourth Estate: Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers, and of the by Frederick Knight Hunt (1850)
"... on one indictment, and convicted on another, but not sentenced, new trial
being granted. man, whom all thought would have mumbled forth a hasty defence ..."
3. The Navy and the Nation: Or, Naval Warfare and Imperial Defence by James Richard Thursfield (1897)
"To them, in 1690, a reverse at sea was equivalent to the overthrow of their sea
power, and instant measures were taken for a hasty defence against the ..."
4. The Fourth Estate: Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers, and of the by Frederick Knight Hunt (1850)
"... and convicted on another, but not sentenced, new trial being granted. man,
whom all thought would have mumbled forth a hasty defence, grew bolder and ..."
5. A History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816-1846 by Harriet Martineau (1877)
"... the timid man, who all thought would have mumbled forth a hasty defence, grew
bolder and bolder, and in a short time had possession of his audience, ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1856)
"... a bare fortification like the ancient Arx (if it is of the Arx proper that
Tacitus is speaking) to furnish such precious materials for a hasty defence. ..."
7. Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1862)
"Where this may not have been prepared, and it is necessary to resort to a hasty
defence, the upper floor of the building may lie occupied, ..."
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