safeguard's Usage Examples:

granted the tenants of Penzance whatever profits might accrue from the "ankerage, kylage and busselage" of ships resorting thither, so long as they should repair and maintain the quay and bulwarks for the safeguard of the ships and town.

It was eventually compromised by giving the power, but only with safeguarding conditions, to the Federal arbitration court.

The men in question claimed to be Christians and to enjoy divine illumination as truly as anybody, and so other safeguards appeared necessary.

The manhood of Christ was safeguarded, as distinct from the Godhead: the union was left an ineffable mystery.

incapable of exertion and reduced to beggary, having lost all respect for discipline and authority, not only in the camp, but in civilian society; and the upper-class officials, narrow-minded and egotistical, unsettling by their opposition the royal authority which they pretended to safeguard.

The notes must also be made payable to a definite person and require endorsement, safeguards which were previously lacking.

The army which safeguarded this active monarchy consisted chiefly of mercenaries.

It was considered a sufficient safeguard against the spiritualizing eschatology of Origen and his school to have rescued the main doctrines of the creed and the regula fidei (the visible advent of Christ; eternal misery and hell-fire for the wicked).

No express pronouncement on this subject could be wrung from him, and his enforced silence concealed the secret design of safeguarding the principle of sovereignty.

The intervention of the powers, based on the convention of London of the i 5th of July 1840, led to the withdrawal of Ibrahim from Syria, and the establishment by the firman of the 13th of February 1841 of Mehemet Ali as hereditary pasha of Egypt under conditions intended to safeguard the sovereign rights of the Ottoman sultan.

To accept Christianity, at least formally, was therefore a prudential safeguard on the part of the Slavonians.

Synonyms:

protect,

Antonyms:

insecureness, listed security,