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protection +‎ -less. Attested since the 19th century.

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protectionless (not comparable)

  1. Without protection.
    • 1881, Mary Cowden Clarke, Honey from the Weed: Verses, page 103:
      All guardless, innocent, protectionless, As you were then, how could I be but thus, If I would not betray my charge, my trust?

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