bulwark against ignorance
- noun
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bastión contra la ignorancia
- Education is widely regarded as a bulwark against ignorance in modern society.
Examples
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Libraries have long served as a bulwark against ignorance by providing free access to information.
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Public access to reliable news sources is a critical bulwark against ignorance in a democracy.
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Education serves as a bulwark against ignorance.
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Libraries are a vital bulwark against ignorance in society.
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Education is widely regarded as a bulwark against ignorance in modern society.
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Libraries have long served as a bulwark against ignorance by providing free access to information.
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Public access to reliable news sources is a critical bulwark against ignorance in a democracy.
Synonyms
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A strong place or thing that protects people from bad things
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Morphology
The phrase combines a clear lexical image of 'bulwark' (a defensive barrier) with 'against' (protecting from) and 'ignorance' (lack of knowledge), so the meaning 'something that protects people from being uninformed' is directly derivable from its parts. The syntactic pattern 'X against Y' is a common, compositional protective construction across languages, making this immediately comprehensible to learners who know the constituent words.
Etymology
Bulwark against ignorance comes from the image of a strong wall, a bulwark, holding back a dark force called ignorance. So calling a school or library a bulwark against ignorance means it 'protects' people from being uninformed.