A feeling of protective affection

Usage examples of protectiveness.

Perhaps, with Mary Fowler, after she had lost everything else, her whole life came to centre on Alberta, so that Alberta was everything and she felt toward her all that desperate protectiveness that a mother may feel toward a child.

If the new queens had been set loose without formality, the bees would have balled them at once because of their protectiveness towards the queen they already had.

Lou Calabrese was devoid of human emotion, he might have felt some manly protectiveness for her, she looked so genuinely alarmed.

She lifted him out, hugging him as fiercely as she had his sister, experiencing the same profound emotions of protectiveness and tender love.

And felt with relief a solid grounding of worry, with overtones of protectiveness and desire to help.

Because in that moment when Hesseth had pulled Jenseny away from the white-feathered sorcerer she had blazed with such protectiveness, such searing maternal ferocity, that Jenseny could no longer think of her as one of the southern rakh.

Celia remembered Augusta's crossness at seeing her brother again after an absence of many months, and her ill-natured observation that his affliction grew worse every year, and a wave of protectiveness surged through her.

Anyone with thoughts of summoning federal authorities to apprehend me upon arrival at SFO & expose my misdeeds & subject me to public disgrace & compulsory consciousness-raising workshops is advised to acquaint him or herself with the Shaftoes first & to at least remain open to possibility that Dad's martial prowess in combination with traditional feelings of psychotic protectiveness toward his female offspring, combined with Daughter's habit of carrying large Palawan stabbing weapon known as a kris, and Daughter's overall psychic fierceness & physical fitness & courage exceeding that of Yours Truly, mitigate any perceived power imbalance, particularly given that most of our interactions take place in settings which lend themselves admirably to discreet homicide & corpse disposal.

Travis’s combination of leashed violence and tender protectiveness was new to her.

On many worlds it is well known, though on others the information is suppressed, that biological realities exist, such as dominance and submission, strength and vulnerability, reciprocal needs, jealousy, possessiveness, protectiveness, sexual dimorphism and its meaning, claimancy and command, behavioral genetics, readinesses to respond to sign stimuli, longings for completeness, the desire to belong to, and yield to, the master animal, and such.

Between this sleep disorder and your over protectiveness, I feel like I'm in a pressure cooker.

He awoke, laughing, to see villas and vineyards and burning country, then slept again, carrying into deeper sleep a coin-image of Vesta looking on him protectively with the protectiveness of a farmer's wife carrying a pig to market.

I finished plaiting his hair and tied it with a scrap of yellow ribbon, feeling as I did so an odd sense of protectiveness.