Definition of Protending

1. Verb. (present participle of protend) ¹

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Definition of Protending

1. protend [v] - See also: protend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Protending

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proteinomimetic
proteinomimetics
proteinopathies
proteinopathy
proteinoplast
proteinoplasts
proteinous
proteins
proteinurea
proteinuria
proteinurias
proteinuric
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protended
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protenses
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proteo-
proteobacteria
proteobacterial
proteobacterium

Literary usage of Protending

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ... Gephyrea: indsamlede paa den Norske Nordhavs-expedition ved D. C by Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, Johan Koren (1881)
"6, a, protending obliquely and intersecting the longitudinal muscles, fig. 6, b, form an extensive oblique layer, fig. 6. c, lying underneath the ..."

2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1844)
"... extreme: and we have next introduced a false professor, who, protending to strong faith, made his own obstinate self-will the only rule of his conduct. ..."

3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Till by the trembling hand of watchful age (A weeping matron, timorous to affright. And piously fallacious in her care, Protending ..."

4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1858)
"... without protending indeed to establish any new historical facts or to decide upon the relative merits of contending claimants to invention or discovery, ..."

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