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Another word for safeguard

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Noun

  1. The act or a means of defending

    See also:

    attack

Verb

  1. To keep safe from danger, attack, or harm

    See also:

    attack

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Another word for safeguard

Noun

  1. Protection

    See also:

    protection

    defense

  2. License

    See also:

    permission

    escort

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Sentence Examples

  • To accept Christianity, at least formally, was therefore a prudential safeguard on the part of the Slavonians.

  • You take great precautions to safeguard Toby, and yet, you rejected your own brother?

  • In the church he inherited the ideas of Laud, and saw in the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity the safeguard of religion.

  • James was driven by the outcry raised to abandon these monopolies, and an att of Parliament in 1624 placed the future grant of proteotions to new inventions under the safeguard of the judges.

  • The intervention of the powers, based on the convention of London of the i 5th of July 1840, led to the withdrawal of Ibrahim from Syria, and the establishment by the firman of the 13th of February 1841 of Mehemet Ali as hereditary pasha of Egypt under conditions intended to safeguard the sovereign rights of the Ottoman sultan.

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