unshieldedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈʃiːldᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈʃildᵻd/ (un- prefix1 2.)
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > exposed to danger > vulnerable > unsheltered or exposed
openOE
discovertc1380
subject1490
uncovered1530
unsheltered1599
uncanopied1613
exposed1691
unshielded1700
unembowered1814
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorphoses in Fables 424 Th' inviolable Body stood sincere; Though Cygnus..scornful offer'd his unshielded Side.
a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 216 Soon will the tempest..This unshielded bosom most fatally wound.
1817 W. Scott Harold iii. viii. 91 Unshielded, mail-less, on he goes Singly against a host of foes.
1883 J. T. Taylor Hardwich's Man. Photogr. Chem. (ed. 9) 290 Exposing a small slip of the sensitive paper, unshielded, to the sun's rays.
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