Meanings
adjectiveprotectionless (not comparable)
- not comparableWithout protection.
All guardless, innocent, protectionless, As you were then, how could I be but thus, If I would not betray my charge, my trust?
1881, Mary Cowden Clarke, Honey from the Weed: Verses, page 103Synonyms: improtected, unprotected
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWithout protection.
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Origin
From protection + -less. Attested since the 19th century.
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