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Protect vs Proxenos - What's the difference?

protect | proxenos |

As a verb protect

is to keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

As a noun proxenos is

a citizen of a state appointed by another state to host its ambassadors and to represent and protect its interests there.

protect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
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    • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (l) * See also

    Derived terms

    * protection * To protect and to serve

    proxenos

    English

    Alternative forms

    * proxenus (Latinate spelling)

    Noun

    (proxenoi)
  • A citizen of a state appointed by another state to host its ambassadors and to represent and protect its interests there.

    • Synonyms

    * hospes (Roman equivalent); consul, minister-resident (modern equivalents)

    Related terms

    * proxenete (chiefly historical) * proxeny (in Ancient Greek history)

    References

    * “ proxenos, n. ” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, March 2008)