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Definition of Defencelessly
1. Adverb. Without defense. "The child was standing in the middle of the crossfire, defenselessly"
Definition of Defencelessly
1. Adverb. In a defenceless manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defencelessly
Literary usage of Defencelessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A short history of the English people by John Richard Green (1877)
"Urged by secret orders from the E2j the West-Saxons rose on St. Brice's Day and
pitilessly massacred * Dines scattered defencelessly among them. ..."
2. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"... return for our free tickets is quite right; and we are absolutely and
defencelessly in the wrong. As to the remedy, I shall deal with that another time. ..."
3. The Best British Short Stories of edited by John Cournos, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"She simply hemmed me defencelessly in with a cloud of men that held me impotent,
and yet one and all refused to administer to my poor flustered old king a ..."
4. Works by James Fenimore Cooper (1892)
"What, sir, is not he who throws himself defencelessly into the very middle of
the ranks of the enemy, the hero of the combat? Now, as this is a political ..."
5. England and the English from an American Point of View by Price Collier (1909)
"... and the late Charles Eliot Norton, but no Englishman speaks better, and very
few as well. The most defencelessly objectionable English now spoken on ..."
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