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Protection of the people from an unmaterialized harm.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1878, fourteen years after my unmaterialized duel, Messieurs Fortu and Gambetta fought a duel which made heroes of both of them in France, but made them rather ridiculous throughout the rest of the world.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark

You really never invested a penny of my uncle's bequest, but only its unmaterialized future; what we have lost was only the incremented harvest from that future by your incomparable financial judgment and sagacity.

From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark

Woolfolk was acutely conscious of her utter isolation with the shivering figure on the porch, the unmaterialized Nicholas.

From Wild Oranges by Hergesheimer, Joseph