Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no guard or defense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a guard or defense; unguarded.
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- adjective
defenceless - adjective without a
guard
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was the afternoon of our last day, and the road was as winding as any I'd seen so far, switchback after switchback, with guardless corners that crumbled into canyons.
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Though acknowledging the risk, some of those who go guardless said a change would amount to a sort of surrender, carried out in the absence of any tangible threat.
NYT > Home Page By MATT FLEGENHEIMER 2011
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For surely, a rich land, guardless and undefended, must needs have been
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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Personally, I look forward to the immense emancipation of living in a guardless rattrap of a building.
Washington Square News Damon Beres 2010
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Personally, I look forward to the immense emancipation of living in a guardless rattrap of a building.
Washington Square News Damon Beres 2010
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* [Footnote: Priam was the old king of Troy, father of Hector.] * [Footnote: _Orion's dog_ means Sirius, the dog star, which was believed by the ancients to be a star of very bad omen.] * [Footnote: _Obtests_ means _entreats_.] * [Footnote: _Expects_ here means _awaits_.] "Ah stay not, stay not! guardless and alone;
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Then will Fafnir be slain and the hoard will be left guardless. "
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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