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Definition of Defenseless

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

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

3. Adjective. Having no protecting or concealing cover. "Naked to mine enemies"

4. Adjective. Lacking weapons for self-defense.

Definition of Defenseless

1. a. Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.

Definition of Defenseless

1. Adjective. Lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Defenseless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Defenseless

defense contractor defense force defense in abatement defense laboratory defense lawyer defense lawyers defense mechanism defense mechanisms defense policy defense program

defense reaction defense reflex defense system defense team defensed defenseless (current term) defenselessly defenselessness defenses defensibilities

defensibility defensible defensibleness defensibly defensin defensing defensins defensive

Literary usage of Defenseless

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

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1901)
"And. in the name of these little ones, these weak and defenseless ones, Christian and Hebrew alike, of many races and tongues, but of homes in which God is ..."

2. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"In the same view, although the English have burnt wantonly many defenseless towns in America, you are not to follow this example unless whore a reasonable ..."

3. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"He invoked the jury to sustain the law, and thereby strike terror to the hearts of those who brutally murdered aged and defenseless women. ..."

4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1897)
"... that Alta California was entirely defenseless; and as the remedying of the defects, which were so apparent, was the duty lying next at hand, ..."

5. From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During by Eliza Ripley (1889)
"... —defenseless CITIZENS. THE rapidly rising river was another element of danger menacing us. It is a fearful sight to see the relentless flood plunging by ..."

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