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单词 defension
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defensionn.

Brit. /dᵻˈfɛnʃn/, U.S. /dəˈfɛnʃən/, /diˈfɛnʃən/
Forms: Middle English defencyoun, Middle English defensioun, Middle English diffencioun, Middle English dyffencioun, Middle English–1500s defencyon, Middle English– defension, 1500s defencion, 1500s defensione, 1500s defensyon; also Scottish pre-1700 diffensioun.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French defension; Latin dēfensiōn-, dēfensiō.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman defensioun, defencion, difencion, Anglo-Norman and Middle French defension defence, protection (c1100 in Old French as defensiun ), instrument of defence (13th cent. or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin dēfensiōn-, dēfensiō act of defending, protection, defence, legal defence, argument for the defence, justification of conduct, excuse < dēfens- , past participial stem of dēfendere defend v. + -tiō -tion suffix. Compare earlier defence n., defending n.Compare Catalan †defensió (14th cent.), Spanish defensión (mid 13th cent.), Portuguese defensão (13th cent.), Italian difensione (late 13th cent.; now archaic). With forms in diff- compare formal variation at defend v.
1. Punishment. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > [noun]
justice?a1160
penancec1300
defensiona1382
forfeiture1390
punishment1402
revengementa1513
penition1547
revenge1561
infliction1590
supplice1646
vindictive1726
auto-da-fé1767
woodshedding1940
knuckle-rapping1944
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xlviii. 7 Thou breeke liȝtili the myȝt of hem..Thatt herdist in Syna dom, and in Oreb domes of defensioun [a1425 L.V. defence; L. defensionis].
2.
a. Defence against or refutation of criticism; justification, support, vindication. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > vindication
defensiona1425
assertion1532
apology1533
propugnation1575
apologizing1611
propugnating1657
vindication1669
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > vindication > vindication by argument
defendingc1350
defencec1384
defensiona1425
defensoryc1475
a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 1 Cor. ix. 3 (MED) My defencyoun [L. defensio] of þem þat asken me is þis.
1514 R. Pace Let. 25 Sept. in R. Fiddes Life Wolsey (1724) Collect. 254 In the defension of your gracis causis.
a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 325 The just defension against his unjust accusation.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. viii. iv. f. 42v/1 Ther are invented, & founde out divers defensions for the foresayed Cautery.
1659 P. Talbot Nullity Prelatique Clergy, & Church of Eng. 126 What Protestant so ever will..take M. Bramhals empty words for sound arguments, his..prevarication, or presumption for a serious, and solid defension.
b. In Roman Catholic colleges: a formal oral defence before an audience of a thesis or proposition. Cf. defence n. 3d, viva n.2 Now historical and rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > [noun] > in defence of thesis
disputation1553
defension1563
coursing1660
respondency1660
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 862/2 He withstandeth the Popes Supremacie..in his disputations and defensions.
1666 W. Blundell in T. E. Gibson Cavalier's Note Bk. (1880) 175 My said brother did make his public defension of Philosophy in the Roman College.
1672 J. V. Canes Τω Kαθολικω Stillingfleeton iv. 84 They have I believe five hundred Readers of the Chair, and perhaps as many publick defensions in every three years space.
1701 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1909) 7 106 We were invited to Mr. Ingram's Defension of his Philosophie.
1808 J. Milner Inq. into Vulgar Opinions conc. Catholic Inhabitants Ireland iii. 19 The student must publicly defend..by solving the objections of each individual present amongst the company indiscriminately invited to these defensions.
1862 F. C. Husenbeth Life J. Milner 8 He never taught in the Schools, nor made any public defensions.
1886 J. Gillow Literary & Biogr. Hist. Eng. Catholics II. 458 This defension took place in the palace of Cardinal Guise.
1963 Times 23 Jan. 15/1 A doctorate in divinity which he obtained in solemn public defension.
1988 H. J. A. Sire Gentlemen Philosophers iv. 68 Training in the technique of logical disputation was provided constantly in ‘Defensions’, which were held two or three times a week.
3. Defence against physical attack, injury, or harm; protection. Also figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defence > [noun]
weringa1300
warrantise?a1400
keepinga1425
defension?a1439
defendancec1450
werea1878
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun]
warec893
mundbyrdeOE
mundOE
forhillinga1300
hillinga1300
weringa1300
warranting1303
garrisonc1320
defencec1325
defendingc1350
protectionc1350
garnisonc1386
safe warda1398
warrantise?a1400
safeguard1421
safekeeping1425
defension?a1439
defendancec1450
warisonc1450
propugnation1575
guard1576
fortifying1580
debate1581
shielding1581
shrouda1586
patronage1590
shrouding1615
fortressing?1624
munification1653
fencinga1661
castleward1674
fending1771
safeguardance1897
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 4316 (MED) Kyng Hostilius..Caste he wolde meete hem in bataile For comoun profit and for diffencioun Bothe off his cite & off his roial toun.
c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 303 (MED) From consent to syn, that dede me nat assaile, Yeue me defensioun, grace, and good counsaile.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 82 (MED) Some men ben excusid for way of defension, as ȝif a clerk come with strengþe to kille a man..ȝif so be that the man..for his defense violently smyte hym.
1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxvi. sig. D.ii The bearde is also as a defensione to the Jawes, the which the woman nedeth not so much as the man.
1561 Nine Ladies Worthie in Chaucer's Wks. f. cccxliiv Against the proud Grekes made defencion With her victorious hand.
1651 Mercurius Politicus No. 49. 786 The Princes, Electors, and States of the Rhine, endevor still at Francfort to help forward the work of Defension.
4. Law. The action of presenting a defence against a prosecution or charge; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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1602 H. Ely Certaine Briefe Notes 157 By appealing a man is constrained to doe it, rather in his owne defence then to dishonor or iniure the Iudge... and so it apperteineth not to sedition, as you say, but to defension.
1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices iii. 144 Right and wrong is twofold according to the Lawes, consisting vpon accusation and defension.
1681 J. M. Corker Stafford's Memoires 7 I think it..necessary, before we enter upon my Lord's special Charge and Defension, to insert here some of those many things the Papists in general..constantly alledge against the Premisses.

Derivatives

deˈfensional adj. [after German Defensional (noun) (1762 in the passage translated in quot. 1762); compare post-classical Latin defensionalis (in speeches) defensive, capable of defending (4th cent.)] now rare of or relating to defence (in various senses); defensive.
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society > armed hostility > defence > [adjective]
defensivea1586
defensional1762
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. III. 682 The arsenal, the defensional office [at Freiburg, Switzerland; Ger. das Defensional].
1825 J. Rennie Art of improving Voice & Ear i. vii. 221 As to your speeches, consider whether they are to be invective, or defensional, or descriptive, or narrative, &c.
1977 Newspeak 26 Apr. 10/4 Again no defensional support.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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