defence
noun
variant of defense.
defencelessly
-
a word derived from
defence.
Example Sentences
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What, sir, is not he who throws himself defencelessly into the very middle of the ranks of the enemy, the hero of the combat?
From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
And there was one who, delicately and unmistakably and defencelessly, showed me that I was not indifferent to her.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
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.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by John Cournos
He received them defencelessly right over his bare head, with both his hands engaged in holding.
From Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
If we had not in good time provided protection for them … we should have been exposed to the danger of having one day to look on defencelessly while we were deprived of them.
From The War and Democracy by
