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pro·tec·tive

(prə-tĕk′tĭv)

adj.

Adapted or intended to afford protection.

Something that protects.

pro·tec′tive·ly adv.

pro·tec′tive·ness n.

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Adv.

protectively - in a protective manner; "he bent protectively over the woman"

Translations

protectively

[prəˈtektɪvlɪ] ADV → en actitud protectora, en actitud de protección

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

protectively

[prəˈtɛktɪvli] adv [act] → d'un air protecteur; [say] → d'un ton protecteur

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

protectively

adv → schützend; (with regard to people) → beschützend; don’t be frightened, he said protectively → hab keine Angst, sagte er in beschützendem Ton

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

protectively

[prəˈtɛktɪvlɪ] adv (say, act) → in modo protettivo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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So the procession, led by the board-of-heath doctor and the sergeant, and brought up in the rear by the policemen with their protectively extended clubs, started through the doorway.

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John's, for, if he be of any pretensions at all, he has an ancestor buried there, with a queer, crooked slab at his head, or else sprawling protectively over the grave, on which all the main facts of his history are recorded.

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