Protect vs Gard - What's the difference?
protect | gard |
To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
, magazine=
As verbs the difference between protect and gard
is that protect is to keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to while gard is obsolete form of lang=en.As a noun gard is
a garden.protect
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(en verb)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}