Sacrosanct vs Defended - What's the difference?
sacrosanct | defended | Related terms |
beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
* {{quote-news
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, date=August 14
, author=Kenneth R. Harney
, title=Homeowner mortgage write-off may be in jeopardy
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sacred.
("sacrosanct on Wikiquote")
(defend)
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(obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
*:The vertue is, that neither steele, nor stone / The stroke thereof from entrance may defend .
(obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
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*:Broder said sir launcelot wete ye wel I am ful lothe to departe oute of this realme / but the quene hath defended me soo hyhely / that me semeth she wille neuer be my good lady as she hath ben
To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
(legal) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian
, title= (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
(sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
As an adjective sacrosanct
is beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.As a verb defended is
past tense of defend.sacrosanct
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(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct , why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block?}}
References
* * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition, 1989defended
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(head)defend
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(en verb)Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Philip Miles, defending , said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."}}
