You are defended from being a trifler.
Alright, so you defended me.
It is surrounded with walls and towers, and defended by a large moated castle of great strength.
His Histoire des causes premieres was among the first attempts at a history of philosophy, and in his work on Epicurus, following on Gassendi, he defended Epicureanism against the general attacks made against it.
Sulla was defended by Cicero and Hortensius, and acquitted.
