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Defenseless   /dɪfˈɛnsləs/   Listen
adjective
Defenseless  adj.  
1.
Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. (Also spelled defenceless)
2.
Unarmed; used of persons or the military. Antonym: armed.





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"Defenseless" Quotes from Famous Books



... to see me—you were sent by that man. (Mrs. Davies, be quiet; curiosity is not a crime, like torturing the defenseless.) Mr. Hawes sent you that you might tell him how soon his victims are like to lose their only ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade
... harder to defend than modern ones, because there was no long-range artillery to prevent an enemy from thrusting into an open haven among defenseless shipping. ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis
... march with Bouquet to save Fort Pitt or to furnish him the slightest assistance. Instead of going westward where the danger was and something might be accomplished, they had turned eastward among the settlements and murdered a few poor defenseless ...
— The Quaker Colonies - A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware, Volume 8 - in The Chronicles Of America Series • Sydney G. Fisher
... political movement. Early in 1837 came a financial panic. The industrial depression wiped out in a short time every form of labor organization from the trade societies to the National Trades' Union. Labor stood defenseless against the economic storm. In this emergency it turned to politics ...
— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman
... very convenient," replied the Marquis, with still more vivacity, "but the proof that it is not true is that you yourself are filled with remorse at not having saved the soul so weak of that defenseless child. Ah, I do not mince the truth to myself, and I shall not do so to you. You remember the morning when you were so gay, and when you gave me the theory of your cosmopolitanism? It amused you, as a perfect dilettante, so you said, to assist in one of those dramas of race which bring ...
— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget


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