Definition of "buttressed" [buttressed]

• Having buttresses or supports. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of buttress. (verb)

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• "It helps to remember that in the early 1960s, before the Stonewall Nation, feminists, and anti-colonial guerillas rose up to fight for pride and empowerment, abject depictions of women, queers and the colonized were still the default expression buttressed by law and religion."
• "Still, it wasn't until I'd passed through the "buttressed" spruce, which marks the unofficial entrance to OSI, and walked the hundred yards or so to a fallen tree upon whose trunk sits a red stone - the very square inch itself - that I apprehended just how privileged I was to be having the experience."
• "As these groups immigrated to America, religion flowed naturally out of their ethnic heritage, while ethnicity buttressed their religion."