Definitions

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  • noun The state or condition of being protected, or the degree to which something is protected.

Etymologies

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protected +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I'm not entirely sure about the "protectedness" of the next generation meself.

    Talking 'Bout My Generation Hal Duncan 2005

  • The Iggulden brothers open a window to an almost lost world where skinned knees are an acceptable risk in the pursuit of adventure; where tying devious knots, deciphering enemy code and making water bombs are more interesting than computer screens; where the rough-and-tumble of being a boy is not a health hazard but a necessary part of growing up; and where over-protectedness is a greater danger than a penknife.

    The Dangerous Book for Boys: Summary and book reviews of The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden. 2007

  • Was it not all a part of the empty London streets, of the four – wheelers even, lined with straw, of the stuffy little boxes of the public dining rooms, of the protectedness, of the leisure?

    The Death of the Moth, and other essays 2002

  • It was quiet with the quiet of protectedness, as if some one brooding, vigilant care encircled it, defending it against all inroads of violent action and thought.

    The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain

  • These enfolding forests gave a look of protectedness to this secret place.

    The Purchase Price Emerson Hough 1890

  • The aggravation of fear -- or call it, apparently, of knowledge -- had jumped straight into its place as an aggravation above all for her father; the effect of this being but to quicken to passion her reasons for making his protectedness, or in other words the forms of his ignorance, still the law of her attitude and the key to her solution.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • The aggravation of fear -- or call it, apparently, of knowledge -- had jumped straight into its place as an aggravation above all for her father; the effect of this being but to quicken to passion her reasons for making his protectedness, or in other words the forms of his ignorance, still the law of her attitude and the key to her solution.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • The aggravation of fear -- or call it, apparently, of knowledge -- had jumped straight into its place as an aggravation above all for her father; the effect of this being but to quicken to passion her reasons for making his protectedness, or in other words the forms of his ignorance, still the law of her attitude and the key to her solution.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • The aggravation of fear -- or call it, apparently, of knowledge -- had jumped straight into its place as an aggravation above all for her father; the effect of this being but to quicken to passion her reasons for making his protectedness, or in other words the forms of his ignorance, still the law of her attitude and the key to her solution.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • The aggravation of fear -- or call it, apparently, of knowledge -- had jumped straight into its place as an aggravation above all for her father; the effect of this being but to quicken to passion her reasons for making his protectedness, or in other words the forms of his ignorance, still the law of her attitude and the key to her solution.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

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