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Word Meanings - COMBATANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.

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  • WARRIORESS
    A female warrior. Spenser.
  • PROTECTORIAL
    See PROTECTORAL
  • PROTECTORLESS
    Having no protector; unprotected.
  • DEFENDER
    One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
  • VINDICATOR
    One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke.
  • COMBATANT
    Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.
  • PROTECTORSHIP
    , The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.
  • CHAMPION
    cf. OHG. chempho, chemphio, fighter, champf, G. kampf, contest; perh. influenced by L. campus field, taken in the sense of "field of 1. One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's
  • CHALLENGER
    One who challenges.
  • VINDICATORY
    1. Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative. 2. Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory. The afflictions of Job were no vindicatory punishments to take vengeance of his sins. Abp. Bramhall.
  • WARRIOR
    A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton. Warrior ant , a reddish ant native of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to
  • PROTECTOR
    One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent. Is it concluded he shall be protector ! Shak. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.
  • CHAMPIONSHIP
    State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.
  • PROTECTORAL
    Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.
  • PROTECTORATE
    1. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell. 2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares
  • CHAMPIONNESS
    A female champion. Fairfax.
  • NONCOMBATANT
    Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army;

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