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  • adverb In a defenceless manner.

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  • adverb without defense

Etymologies

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defenceless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Your reality as more desirable than mine the same dead end you regret and when you are here, why point defencelessly backward this under the trees the white pavilion what ploughed furrows.

    Archive 2010-03-01 David McDuff 2010

  • Your reality as more desirable than mine the same dead end you regret and when you are here, why point defencelessly backward this under the trees the white pavilion what ploughed furrows.

    Poems - 4 David McDuff 2010

  • Further to these objects, there was a large collection of glass jars in which wombs and ovaries, drenched in spirits, plus the odd female breast were preserved, even an aborted fœtus of a girl was floating, curled up defencelessly, in such a jar of yellowed glass.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Eric Dickens 2009

  • We crept on defencelessly, slowly, among the stones, feeling like sardines in a doomed tin, as the bombs fell closer.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • As the plant slumped defencelessly, Daphe severed six of the great transparent pods that were to be their coffins.

    HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

  • 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 merciful _coup de grâce_.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

  • And there was one who, delicately and unmistakably and defencelessly, showed me that I was not indifferent to her.

    Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

  • He received them defencelessly right over his bare head, with both his hands engaged in holding.

    Typhoon, and other stories 1902

  • He received them defencelessly right over his bare head, with both his hands engaged in holding.

    Typhoon Joseph Conrad 1890

  • And there was one who, delicately and unmistakably and defencelessly, showed me that I was not indifferent to her.

    Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

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