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Definition of Defenceless

1. Adverb. Without defense. "The child was standing in the middle of the crossfire, defenselessly"

2. Adjective. Lacking protection or support. "A defenseless child"

3. Adjective. Lacking weapons for self-defense.

Definition of Defenceless

1. Adjective. Without defence; undefended. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Defenceless

defeminize defeminized defeminizes defeminizing defence defence accord defence accords defence diplomacy defence force defence mechanism

defence policy defence program defence reaction defence system defenced defenceless (current term) defencelessly defencelessness defenceman defencemen

defences defencing defencively defend defendable defendably defendant defendants defendaunt defended

Literary usage of Defenceless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). Governor (1801-1804 : Clinton), New York (State). State Historian (1901)
"WESTCHESTER'S defenceless CONDITION. Colonel Thomas Submits the Matter to ... S'r, The exposed and defenceless Situation of the County of Westchester on the ..."

2. Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-five Years: Commencing with the Battle of by Ebenezer Smith Thomas (1840)
"When war was declared, Charleston was in a very defenceless state; Fort Moultrie might be said to be its only defence^ and it no doubt would have proved a ..."

3. Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner by Charles Edwards Lester (1874)
"pedition has seized, with pilfering rapacity, the defenceless province of California. It is by virtue of this Act, that General Kearney has marched upon and ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"fore returned to Bir, and raised some fortifications about that open defenceless Town, where they encamped ten or twelve days, to countenance the workmen. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... and unwilling to condemn, the soldiers determined his suspense, by plunging their daggers at the same moment into the breasts of the defenceless youths. ..."

6. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"... structure—Decrease in size of the canine teeth—Increased size and altered shape of the skull—Nakedness—Absence of a tail—defenceless condition of man. ..."

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