All 5 Uses of
buttress
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He sat up straight, buttressed by the columns of paragraphs on yellow-tinged paper, which he was seeing in his mind: "At a time of crucial public need, are we to waste social effort on the manufacture of obsolete products?†
Chpt 2.6buttressed = made stronger or defensible
- He hesitated, then he buttressed his courage with the thought that one did not doubt the good faith and the competence of railroad executives.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- There's a destroyer loose in the country, who's cutting down the buttresses one after another to let the structure collapse upon our heads.†
Chpt 2.3
- It would have a great influence on them, it would buttress their confidence, it would help their morale.†
Chpt 3.3
- Chick Morrison attempted a whistle-stop tour to buttress the country's morale by speeches on self-sacrifice for the general welfare.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(buttress as in: buttress the defenses) make stronger or defensible
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(2)
(buttress as in: a flying buttress) an architectural feature that supports the wall of a building
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