defenced

comparative more defenced · superlative most defenced

1. archaicbiblicalHaving defenses; defended.

   Comparison of the condition to which the defenced city is to be reduced, to a wilderness.

   1854 July, “A Designation and Exposition of the Figures in Isaiah”, in The Theological and Literary Journal, volume 7, number 1, page 150

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   But if any proper burning of the Sunne should be vnderstood, how isit, that it afflicteth the wicked more thế the good, whereas both of them dwell mingled together vppon the earth and the one of them is not more defenced frố the force of the heauenly bodies, then the other.

   1616, Thomas Brightman, The Reuelation of St Iohn, page 680

   Human invention Could not instruct me to dispose her where She could be more defenced from all men's eyes; An anchorite lives not prisoned in a wall With more security.

   1633, James Shirley, The Bird in a Cage

   The reason why they are a defenced city during the time of their taking root, just like today, is because they are in their land, but not in their land undere the blessing of the old covenant. Once they are in their land undere the old covenant, because God purged them, they will not need a defense. Because the Lord is their defense. Today, Israel is a defenced city with walls as they are taking root.

   2010, Clair L. Hassell, Jonathan C. Hassell, Will the Red Sea Part Again, page 92

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of defence