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Shielding   /ʃˈildɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Shield  v. t.  (past & past part. shielded; pres. part. shielding)  
1.
To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury. "Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield." "A woman's shape doth shield thee."
2.
To ward off; to keep off or out. "They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured."
3.
To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid! (Obs.) "God shield that it should so befall." "God shield I should disturb devotion!"





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"Shielding" Quotes from Famous Books



... over the graves of the king and queen, purchased the place containing their bodies, and converted it into an orchard, with the view of shielding them from the fury of the populace. His plan was successful, and it is said that he sent every year a beautiful bouquet of flowers to the duchess d'Angouleme, which were gathered from the ground beneath which ...
— Paris: With Pen and Pencil - Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business • David W. Bartlett
... I scarcely know what words in reply. It was close on midnight before I went to bed. When I entered her room, shielding the light of the candle with my hand, she was ...
— The Return Of The Soul - 1896 • Robert S. Hichens
... of shielding her from the rude world makes him keep his troubles to himself, so she rarely knows his financial position and sulks over his "meanness" to her, in regard to pin-money; and being a perfectly idle person, her days are apt ...
— Worldly Ways and Byways • Eliot Gregory
... and Saronia, the fearful priestess, was alone. Shielding her eyes that she might not look again upon the sacrifice, she turned to ...
— Saronia - A Romance of Ancient Ephesus • Richard Short
... of my suspicion. If I was right in thinking that the poor misguided child was shielding her husband's murderer, from whatever motives of pity or friendship, the less said to disturb her the better, till we ...
— Potterism - A Tragi-Farcical Tract • Rose Macaulay


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