protectingness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. protectiveness uncountable
    — How old was Isabel? According to all reasonable inferences from the presumed circumstances of her life, she was his elder, […]; nevertheless, not only did he feel his muscular superiority to her, so to speak, which made him spontaneously alive to a feeling of elderly protectingness over her; […]

词源

From protecting + -ness.
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