ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
a. 1593. Marlowe, Ovid’s Elegies, II. ii. 12. Nor is her husband wise, what needes defence When vn-protected ther is no expence?
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. i. § 4. Such euils … as men either destitute of grace diuine may commit, or vnprotected from aboue, indure.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, VII. 97. A defenceless unprotected woman.
1791. Mrs. Radcliffe, Rom. Forest, iv. The idea of leaving his family unprotected.
1844. Noad, Electricity (ed. 2), 429. It is necessary to observe … that the lamps were unprotected.
1879. Lubbock, Sci. Lect., ii. 41. It might be an advantage to a flower which was quite unprotected, to open early for the bees.
Hence Unprotectedly adv., -ness.
1823. Blackw. Mag., XIV. 461. Seeing their friends massacred unprotectedly all round them.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. 13. His unprotectedness, his utter defencelessness.
1895. Meredith, Amazing Marriage, xlvi. Lady Arpington’s mention of Henrietta’s unprotectedness.
