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Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.

Preservative. Bp. Hall.

destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak.

One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak.

To present again; as, to re-present the points of an argument.

The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify. Before him burn Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing The heavenly fires. Milton.

Capable of being represented.

Representation; likeness. [Obs.] Donne.

Appearing or acting for another; representing.

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

Implying representation; representative. [R.]

Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

In a representative manner; vicariously.

The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.

A representative. [Obs.] Swift.

Representation. [Obs.]

The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.

Omnipresence. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

Omnipresence. [Obs.] A. Tucker.