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defenseless

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1. defenseless - Adjective

2. defenseless - Adverb

3. defenseless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. Sigmund Freud

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. Robert G. Ingersoll

but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public. Akira Kurosawa

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. Michel Foucault

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. Kate Chopin

One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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