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Protective

adjective

Intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind. "The use of protective masks and equipment" , "Protective coatings" , "Kept the drunken sailor in protective custody" , "Animals with protective coloring" , "Protective tariffs" Antonym: unprotective.

Showing care.

(usually followed by 'of') solicitously caring or mindful.

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"Protective" Quotes from Famous Books

... to see that the joy of both parents centred in that one little life; no jesting could disguise the ring of love and pride in both voices as they spoke of Dickie. She recalled the instinctive, protective love clearly visible in tone and gesture as the two anxious souls had striven to give courage to each other. The eternal trinity of love—husband and wife and child—and the greater the love the greater the risk of sorrow and of loss. Ah! that might be so, ...

— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay

... soothing, protective; his appealing, welcoming—produced the most bewildering effect. I felt embarrassed and abashed; an indecently impertinent intruder upon the secret places of two human hearts. That any such intimate and tender correspondence ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... of pine and spruce it must be noted that sometimes the deepest, glossiest green of the leaves as presented to the eye only hides the dainty, white-lined interior surface of those same leaves. To the outside, a somber dignity, unassailable, untouched by frost or sun, protective, defenseful, as nature often appears to the careless observer; but inside is light, softly reflected, revealing unsuspected delicacies of ...

— Getting Acquainted with the Trees • J. Horace McFarland

... face, and a hard sob broke from his labouring chest. Von Glauben laid a gentle, protective hand on ...

— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli

... every State in the Union are able to work harmoniously together because they are unhampered with traditions of what the founders of the Republic intended,—the sacredness of state rights, or the protective paternalism of Wall Street. The gloriously illogical sincerity of women is concerned only about the ...

— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr

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