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Plaint vs Defense - What's the difference?

plaint | defense |

As nouns the difference between plaint and defense

is that plaint is (poetic|or|archaic) a lament or woeful cry while defense is defence (action of defending or protecting from attack, danger or injury, or any means for that purpose).

plaint

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (poetic, or, archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
  • * 1827 , Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale , page 11:
  • In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint ?) that he could never more taste of joy.
  • A complaint.
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
  • An accusation.
  • Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    defense

    English

    Alternative forms

    * defence (British)

    Noun

  • (en noun) (US)
  • The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
  • Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
  • # A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
  • # The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
  • An argument in support or justification of something.
  • Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
  • Department of Defense
  • Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
  • * Sir W. Temple
  • Severe defenses against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * offense

    Derived terms

    * antidefense * ecodefense * Nuremberg defense * defensive * defensiveness * defensive scheme * defensive system