protectingness

English

Etymology

From protecting +‎ -ness.

Noun

protectingness (uncountable)

  1. protectiveness
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      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; […]
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