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Word Meanings - PROTECTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By way of protection; in a protective manner.

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  • PROTECTIVE
    Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring , coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff ,
  • PROTECTIONIST
    One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • PROTECTIVENESS
    The quality or state of being protective. W. Pater.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • PROTECTIONISM
    The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • PROTECTION
    A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
    A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.

 

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