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Bulwark vs Fastness - What's the difference?

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Bulwark is a related term of fastness.


As nouns the difference between bulwark and fastness

is that bulwark is a defensive wall or rampart while fastness is a secure or fortified place; a stronghold, a fortress.

As a verb bulwark

is to fortify something with a wall or rampart.

bulwark

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A defensive wall or rampart.
  • A defense or safeguard.
  • * Blackstone
    • The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence, the floating bulwark of our island.
  • A breakwater.
  • (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
  • To provide protection of defense for something.

    • fastness

    English

    Noun

  • A secure or fortified place; a stronghold, a fortress
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1917 , year_published=1917 , edition= , editor= , author= , title= , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=archive.org , isbn= , page= , passage=The incubators are built in remote fastnesses , where there is little or no likelihood of their being discovered by other tribes. }}
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:When she came to know writers it was like adventuring upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the footlights. She saw them dramatically, and really seemed herself to live a larger life because she entertained them and visited them in their fastnesses .
  • The state of being fast.
  • # firmness, security
  • # rapidity, swiftness
  • The ability of a dye to withstand fading