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palladium
/pəˈleɪdi.əm/
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What does palladium mean?
noun
- A safeguard.
- A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
- A single atom of this element.
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proper noun
- A wooden statue of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend.
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Why should the Place Maubert and the Palace of the Tuileries be the palladium of France?
And this itwas that made the trial b jury the palladium of their liberties.
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And how is it in our national capital, the palladium of our liberties?
Such formerly was the object of the temple of Jerusalem, real palladium of the Jewish nation; such was the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus of Rome.
The friends and adversaries of the plan of the convention, if they agree in nothing else, concur at least in the value they set upon the trial by jury; or if there is any difference between them it consists in this: the former regard it as a valuable safeguard to liberty; the latter represent it as the very palladium of free government.