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Protectively   /prətˈɛktɪvli/  /pərtˈɛktɪvli/   Listen
Protectively

adverb
1.
In a protective manner.






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"Protectively" Quotes from Famous Books



... procession, led by the board-of-heath doctor and the sergeant, and brought up in the rear by the policemen with their protectively extended clubs, ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London

... too long for the opening prayer. Alma understood that he had forgotten himself in his own sad thoughts. Her little slender hand sought his, that hung at his side, and her fragile figure crowded protectively towards him. ...
— The Golden House • Mrs. Woods Baker

... summer-house. And in winter, with the heavy carpets down, and the thick curtains, the very polished floors, so cool in summer, seem expressly designed to glimmer warmly with candle and fire-light; and the books seem to lean forward protectively and reassert themselves, and the low beamed ceilings to shelter and safeguard the interior comfort. The center of gravity is changed almost imperceptibly. In summer the place is a garden with a house in the middle; in winter ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson

... peace seems to fold her wings and sit brooding, but danger is there. Danger that crawls and creeps and runs with great bounds. Danger upon velvety paws, that fall on the mosses of the forest carpet as lightly as an autumn leaf; danger that slinks in gray protectively colored forms which pass like shadows; danger upon wings, as sure and speedy as the hunter's arrow,—wings fringed with down, that their coming may be noiseless ...
— Black Bruin - The Biography of a Bear • Clarence Hawkes



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