What is the meaning of the word 'aegis'

aegis - shield; defense


Some sentence examples which use the word 'aegis'

  • A team of doctors was flown in under the aegis of the Red cross to cure people injured in the blast.
  • According to this later tradition Yahweh was unknown till the days of Moses, and under the aegis of His power the Hebrew tribes were delivered from Egyptian thraldom.
  • The knight who joined the Crusades might thus still indulge the bellicose side of his genius - under the aegis and at the bidding of the Church; and in so doing he would also attain what the spiritual side of his nature ardently sought - a perfect salvation and remission of sins.
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