Usage History of 'defensively'

The following chart shows how frequently 'defensively' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'defensively' occurred 8 times in books in 1690 and 29,225 times in 2008. From 1690 to 2008, the word 'defensively' was used a total of 660,152 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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