protectionless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From protection + -less. Attested since the 19th century.
Adjective
[edit]protectionless (not comparable)
- Without protection.
- 1881, Mary Cowden Clarke, Honey from the Weed: Verses, page 103:
- All guardless, innocent, protectionless, As you were then, how could I be but thus, If I would not betray my charge, my trust?