palladium
Collocations
3ADJ.
civil, needed, political, spiritual, true
VERB + PALLADIUM
stol'n
PALLADIUM + NOUN
invention, nation
Definitions
noun
A safeguard.
The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.
[H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]
noun
A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
A single atom of this element.
name
A wooden statue of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend.
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Synonyms
noun — a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that r
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.
Wiktionary[H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]
WiktionaryThe presupposition of the Prometheus myth is to be found in the extravagant value which a naive humanity attached to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture.
WiktionaryThese artefacts are the depictions of the deity that serves as the spiritual and political palladium of the nation.
Tatoeba · #5278167"By his words made wise / this steed, for stol'n Palladium, they devise, / to soothe the outrag'd goddess."
Tatoeba · #6814542Palladium is a transition metal with element symbol Pd and atomic number 46.
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