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palladium

/pəˈleɪdi.əm/

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What does palladium mean?

noun

  1. A safeguard.
  2. A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
  3. A single atom of this element.
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proper noun

  1. 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?
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentProject Gutenberg ebook #360
And this itwas that made the trial b jury the palladium of their liberties.
Lysander SpoonerAn Essay on the Trial By JuryProject Gutenberg ebook #1201
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And how is it in our national capital, the palladium of our liberties?
Upton SinclairThe Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic InterpretationProject Gutenberg ebook #1558
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.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
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.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18