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Definition of Protectively
1. Adverb. In a protective manner. "He bent protectively over the woman"
Definition of Protectively
1. Adverb. In a protective manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Protectively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protectively
Literary usage of Protectively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Projective Geometry by Linneaus Wayland Dowling (1917)
"two forms of the second kind are protectively related and corresponding elements
are of like kinds, the forms are said to be collinearly related and the ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"... WOODCOCK ON NEST A protectively colored bird which, relying on its color to
... protectively ..."
3. Animal Coloration: An Account of the Principal Facts and Theories Relating by Frank Evers Beddard (1892)
"Certain apparently protectively Coloured Animals probably do not owe their
Coloration to the Action of Natural Selection. One of the commonest of British ..."
4. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Derrick Norman Lehmer (1917)
"Pole and polar protectively related. Another very important theorem comes directly
from Fig. 26. As a point A moves along a straight line its polar with ..."
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