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protectively

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pro·tec·tive  (pr-tktv)
adj.
Adapted or intended to afford protection.
n.
Something that protects.
pro·tective·ly adv.
pro·tective·ness n.
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Adv.1.protectively - in a protective manner; "he bent protectively over the woman"


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So the 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, started through the doorway.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
John's, for, if he be of any pretensions at all, he has an ancestor buried there, with a queer, crooked slab at his head, or else sprawling protectively over the grave, on which all the main facts of his history are recorded.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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