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Word Meanings - RESISTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through

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The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles. 3. A means or method of resisting; that which resists. Unfold to us some warlike resistance. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.

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  • EXCUSEMENT
    Excuse. Gower.
  • GUARDANT
    See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
  • GUARDIAN
    One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
  • GUARDIANSHIP
    The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
  • 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;
  • RAMPART
    A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • GUARDIANESS
    A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
  • SHELTERLESS
    Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
  • GUARDIANLESS
    Without a guardian. Marston.
  • GUARDER
    One who guards.
  • GUARDS
    A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • EXCUSER
    1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
  • BETRAYAL
    The act or the result of betraying.
  • 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
  • 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
  • EXPOSE
    1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
  • DEFENSER
    Defender. Foxe.
  • GUARDHOUSE
    A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
  • UNRESISTANCE
    Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
  • COUNTERGUARD
    A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
  • COGUARDIAN
    A joint guardian.
  • VANGUARD
    The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van. (more info) avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant, Ab-,Ante-, and Guard,

 

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