What does protectingness mean?
Protectingness means protectiveness.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
protectiveness.
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; […]
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Protectingness means protectiveness.
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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; […]
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