to be proof against something

  • 71Matheme — The matheme (from Greek: μάθημα lesson ) is a concept introduced in the work of the 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The term matheme occurred for the first time in the lecture Lacan delivered on November 4, 1971...Between 1972… …

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  • 72Divine command theory — This article is about the meta ethical theory. For the divine command theory of happiness, see Positive psychology. Divine command theory is the meta ethical view about the semantics or meaning of ethical sentences, which claims that ethical… …

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  • 73invincible — invincible, unconquerable, indomitable, impregnable, inexpugnable, unassailable, invulnerable mean proof against attack or defeat. A person or thing is invincible or un conquerable that presents insuperable difficulties to his or its being… …

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  • 74Jack Woodford — (1894 ndash;1971) was a successful pulp novelist and non fiction author of the 1930s and 1940s. He wrote unique books on writing and getting published. Most famously, Woodford authored Trial and Error which caused something of a scandal at the… …

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  • 75Flatlander (short story) — Flatlander is an English language science fiction short story written in 1967 by Larry Niven. It is the third in the series of Known Space stories featuring crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. The short story was originally published in Worlds of If ,… …

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  • 76HMS Defender (1911) — HMS Defender was an Acheron class destroyer of the Royal Navy.She was built at William Denny Brothers in Dumbarton, Scotland for £83,000 [ D K Brown The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906 1922 . Caxton Editions 2004. ISBN 1 84067… …

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  • 77Dénés — • An aboriginal race of North America, also called Athapaskans and known earlier among earlier ethnologists as Tinne or Tinneh Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Denes     Dénés      …

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  • 78testify — tes·ti·fy / tes tə ˌfī/ vb fied, fy·ing [Latin testificari, from testis witness] vi: to make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation for the purpose of establishing a fact: give testimony vt: to declare in testimony tes·ti·fi·er n Merriam… …

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  • 79stet — verb (stets, stetting, stetted) let it stand (used as an instruction on a printed proof to ignore a correction). ↘write such an instruction against (something altered). Origin L., let it stand , from stare to stand …

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  • 80harden — 1 Harden, solidify, indurate, petrify, cake are comparable when they mean to make or to become physically hard or solid. Harden usually expresses an opposition to soften and therefore may be as often used of the process as of the effect. The term …

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