Protectingness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 protectiveness uncountable
"How old was Isabel? According to all reasonable inferences from the presumed circumstances of her life, she was his elder, […]; nevertheless, not only did he feel his muscular superiority to her, so to speak, which made him spontaneously alive to a feeling of elderly protectingness over her; […]"
Example
More examples"How old was Isabel? According to all reasonable inferences from the presumed circumstances of her life, she was his elder, […]; nevertheless, not only did he feel his muscular superiority to her, so to speak, which made him spontaneously alive to a feeling of elderly protectingness over her; […]"
Etymology
From protecting + -ness.
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