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KJV
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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INTRENCH'MENT, n. Properly, a trench or ditch only; but as the earth thrown out of a trench forms a part,and often the most necessary and useful part of a fortification, hence intrenchment is generally understood to signify a ditch and parapet,and sometimes it signifies fascines covered with earth, gabions, bags filled with earth, or other materials collected to cover men from an enemy's fire.
The act of intrenching or the state of
being intrenched.
Any defensive work
consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the
earth thrown up in making such a ditch.
On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills. Washington. Any defense or protection.
An encroachment or infringement.
The slight intrenchment upon individual freedom. Southey. | ||||||||