buttressed

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But what could relevance or support be worth if the things to be buttressed were themselves worthless?

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  1. Furnished with a buttress or buttresses: said of an arch, or of a building or part of a building, as a Gothic church.

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  • Long, flat triangular vanes, something like the buttressed arches of a cathedral, protruded from its sides. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
  • We looked down on magnificent ravines among buttressed-shaped mountains. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • Colonization must be buttressed, reinforced, ASAP. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • Moreover, the operating "profitability" of the big banks are cosmetically TARP-buttressed - fortified by the old sporting event called The Musical Chair Swap Meet between our institutions. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • Still, it wasn't until I'd passed through the "buttressed" spruce, which marks the unofficial entrance to OSI, and walked the hundred yards or so to a fallen tree upon whose trunk sits a red stone - the very square inch itself - that I apprehended just how privileged I was to be having the experience. —  Whole Life Times
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