Noun
See Self-defense.
Source: Webster's dictionaryself defence
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. Susan Sontag
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence. Ronald Fisher
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions. Margaret Thatcher
Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me. Brooke Shields
Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence. Yasser Arafat
Your case no tame expedients will afford, Resolve on death or conquest by the sword, Which for no less a stake than life you draw, And self-defence is Nature's eldest law. John Dryden