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Word of the Day for Tuesday, December 2, 2008bulwark \BUL-wurk; -wawrk\, noun, verb: 1. to defend or protect, serve as a bulwark; shelter The French eventually prevailed, and Asher and his ally Alex were kicked up north to the town of Siem Reap, where they helped reconstruct the earthquake-damaged Elephant Wall, an infuriatingly complicated Khmer bulwark that had fallen into several hundred pieces some centuries ago. Originally a set of largely structural guarantees applying only against the federal government, the Bill has become a bulwark of rights against all government conduct. The country has overwhelming importance to America as a strategic ally in a highly volatile Islamic region; indeed, Washington is counting on it to be a bulwark against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism into Europe. For Laura's mother the church, in addition to what spiritual significance it possessed, stood out as a bulwark of civilization in the midst of a still forming, rough frontier culture. Today we bulwark an older, liberal-Christian Europe against newer atheistic totalitarian forces. c.1418, from Middle Dutch bulwerke or Middle High German bolwerc, from bole "plank, tree trunk" + werc "work." The figurative sense dates from 1577. | |||||||||
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