Defended meaning

You are defended from being a trifler.

Alright, so you defended me.

"I'm not afraid of the wildlife, I'm cautious," he defended quickly.

It is surrounded with walls and towers, and defended by a large moated castle of great strength.

He appointed visitors for the universities and great public schools, and defended the universities from the attacks of the extreme sectaries who clamoured for their abolition, even Clarendon allowing that Oxford "yielded a harvest of extraordinary good and sound knowledge in all parts of learning."