Buttress Definition
To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
Origin of Buttress
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From Old French bouterés, nominative singular of bouteret, from Frankish *botan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push”). Ultimately cognate with beat.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English buteras from Old French bouterez from bouter to strike against of Germanic origin bhau- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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