unprotectedness

They could laugh all they liked at his unprotectedness: he knew appreciation when he heard it.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

Socrates had attacked the poets for appealing to those passions that make men ecstatic from terror at what they can suffer and their unprotectedness in their suffering.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Socrates had attacked the poets for appealing to those passions that make men ecstatic from terror at what they can suffer and their unprotectedness in their suffering.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

A farmer passing through with his axe is but an intruder, and children straying home from school give one a feeling of solicitude at their unprotectedness.

The White Rose Road 1995

But the incident alarmed her, and caused her to realize yet more vividly than before the exceeding unprotectedness of her situation.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

What awful woe of sudden unprotectedness when life exists only through protection -- what piteous panic in the midst of black unmercifulness, inarticulate sound howsoever wildly shrill can neither explain nor express.

The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

A farmer passing through with his axe is but an intruder, and children straying home from school give one a feeling of solicitude at their unprotectedness.

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

A little incident, pointing in no direction, had left a shadow of a cloud, consequent upon Lady Arpington's mention of Henrietta's unprotectedness.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

"Sir Willoughby," Miss Dale said to her, "is always in alarm about our unprotectedness."

The Egoist George Meredith 1868

"Sir Willoughby," Miss Dale said to her, "is always in alarm about our unprotectedness."

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868