Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no protector.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no protector; unprotected.

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  • adjective Having no protector; unprotected.

Etymologies

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protector +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Befall those who are protectorless and tormented with hunger,

    Four Hundred Verse Treatise on the Actions of a Bodhisattva's Yoga ��� Chapters 1 - 4 Aryadeva 2007

  • Were they, surviving Adrian and myself, to find themselves protectorless in the world?

    The Last Man 2003

  • Fatherless and protectorless as Isaura is, I feel bound to act as a virtual guardian to one in whom my wife takes so deep an interest, and to whom, as she thinks, she had some hand in bringing about your engagement: she is committed to no small responsibilities.

    The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Fatherless and protectorless as Isaura is, I feel bound to act as a virtual guardian to one in whom my wife takes so deep an interest, and to whom, as she thinks, she had some hand in bringing about your engagement: she is committed to no small responsibilities.

    The Parisians — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Were they, surviving Adrian and myself, to find themselves protectorless in the world?

    III.1 1826

  • Were they, surviving Adrian and myself, to find themselves protectorless in the world?

    The Last Man 1826

  • Were they, surviving Adrian and myself, to find themselves protectorless in the world?

    The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

  • She had already experienced the evils of being protectorless and indigent, and my seasonable interference snatched her from impending and less supportable ills.

    Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790

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