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entrenched, intrenched, ppl. a.|ɛn-, ɪnˈtrɛnʃt|
[f. entrench v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb. a. Surrounded with a trench; fortified. Also fig. b. Dug out like a trench, excavated.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 247 An entrenched ground with three ditches. c1590Marlowe Faust. 44 Environ'd round with airy mountain-tops, With walls of flint, and deep-entrenched lakes. a1667Cowley To his Majesty, Wk. II. 571 No deeply entrench'd Islands. 1785Burke Sp. Fox's E. Ind. Bill Wks. X. 229 Their Stativa, or stations..were strong intrenched camps. 1811Wellington in Gurw. Disp. VII. 164 An intrenched camp should be marked out. 1861Times 23 July, Attacking the entrenched position of the rebels.
c. Politics. Esp. in entrenched clauses, entrenched provisions, constitutional legislation that may not be repealed except under more than usually stringent conditions.
1950Newsweek 23 Jan. 45/3 It was pretty well agreed that the right to two official languages, freedom of religion, and provincial control over education would be ‘entrenched’ clauses of the constitution [of Canada], not to be changed without approval of every province. 1952Ann. Reg. 1951 103 The Government were still bound by the ‘entrenched clauses’ of the South Africa Act. 1957Elliott & Summerskill Dict. Politics 106 Entrenched Provisions, those sections of the South Africa Act, 1909, which can be altered or repealed only by a Bill passed by both Houses of Parliament sitting together, and agreed to at the third reading by not less than two thirds of the total number of members of both Houses. 1962Listener 12 Apr. 626/2 A constitutionally entrenched Bill of Rights. |