protectionless en · ADJ
Etymology
From protection + -less. Attested since the 19th century.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without 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 103: