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Protectiveness

noun
1.
A feeling of protective affection.
2.
The quality of providing protection.





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"Protectiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... flower as Von Rosen looked down upon it. He wondered more and more that he had never noticed this exquisite young creature before. He did not yet dream of love in connection with her, but he was conscious of a passion of surprised admiration and protectiveness. ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... my fellow-lodgers at Les Trois Pigeons. Liking for both men increased with acquaintance, and for the younger I came to feel, in addition, a kind of championship, doubtless in some measure due to what Keredec had told me of him, but more to that half- humourous sense of protectiveness that we always have for those young people whose untempered and innocent outlook makes us feel, as we say, "a ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington


Words linked to "Protectiveness" :   protective, tenderness, fondness, affection, warmness, heart, warmheartedness, quality, affectionateness, philia


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