buttress

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1. buttress - Noun

2. buttress - Verb

Meaning

A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

Anything which supports or strengthens.

To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

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What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from... For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. Terry Brooks

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress you need a religion if you are terrified of death. Gore Vidal

The conflation of faith as "unevidenced belief” with its vernacular use as "confidence based on experience” is simply a word trick used to buttress religion. Jerry Coyne

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. Peter Mandelson

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place. Virginia Kelley

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. Tony Campolo

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