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Word Meanings - DEFENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales.

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  • CONFESSION
    The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • EXCUSEMENT
    Excuse. Gower.
  • APOLOGY
    1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
  • TALLYHO
    1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
  • CONFESSIONALISM
    An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
  • EXCUSE
    1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
  • COUNTERPART
    One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another
  • ANSWER
    1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
  • EXCUSER
    1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
  • REPLY
    To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref.
  • CONFESSIONIST
    One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.
  • VINDICATION
    The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
  • RETORTIVE
    Containing retort.
  • PRETERMIT
    To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.
  • DEFENSER
    Defender. Foxe.
  • SOLUTION
    The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not
  • RETORTION
    Retaliation. Wharton. (more info) 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • JUSTIFICATION
    The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer. (more info) 1. The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude. 2. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth,
  • MONSEL'S SOLUTION
    An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
  • ACCIDENTALLY
    In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
  • NONSOLUTION
    Failure of solution or explanation.
  • ALIMENTALLY
    So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
  • HORIZONTALLY
    In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
  • RESOLUTIONER
    One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
  • SENTIMENTALLY
    In a sentimental manner.
  • TEETOTALLY
    Entirely; totally.
  • SACRAMENTALLY
    In a sacrament manner.

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