I am on de fence about this. Defense originates from the French but in this country we changed the s to a c. Although we spell defensive with an s not a c!
strictly speaking, from 12th - 14th C Old French defens which became defense, at the same time it became defence in England.
The word originates from Late Latin defensum .
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