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verb

Shield v. t. (past & past part. shielded; pres. part. shielding)

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."

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."

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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Etymology of 'Shielding'

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"Shielding" Quotes from Famous Books

... Faculty would not hear him, but to the students in Arts he lectured on Greek and Hebrew and philosophy. For some years, too, he was physician to David of Burgundy, Bishop of Utrecht, whom he cured of gout by making him take baths of warm milk. The Bishop rewarded him by shielding him from the attacks of the Dominicans, who were incensed by his bold criticisms of Aquinas; and when age brought the desire for rest, the Bishop set him over a house of nuns at Groningen, and bought him the right to visit Mount St. Agnes whenever he liked, by paying ...

— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen

... save the droning of the students and the sough of the wind in the forest. At midnight the flames of the candles wavered violently, though no breath of wind was felt within the hot room. But the watchers shielding the flames with their hands strove to prevent them being extinguished. Nevertheless they all went out, and a weird gloom fell upon the room, the firelight throwing the students' shadows horribly on the walls and ceiling. Their blood ran cold. But one, bolder ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... say I, dropping my shielding hand into my lap, and letting the full fire-warmth blaze on eyes, nose, and cheeks. "Barbara, what did you ...

— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton

... 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

... up yet," Porter said. He had an umbrella over her, and was shielding her as best he could from the rain. "I don't like to think of ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

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