Vocabulary : Defensively to Deferred

Defensively : On the defensive.
Defensor : A defender. ;; A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector. ;; The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.
Defensory : Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.
Defer : To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. ;; To put off; to delay to act; to wait. ;; To render or offer. ;; To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to. ;; To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.
Deference : A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.

Deferent : Serving to carry; bearing. ;; That which carries or conveys. ;; An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
Deferential : Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
Deferentially : With deference.
Deferment : The act of delaying; postponement.
Deferred : of Defer

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