The other extreme, defencelessness, is equally objectionable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

This defencelessness has two dangers: firstly, the chance of a successful raid or invasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference

It was not so much their nakedness which impressed him as the utter defencelessness it seemed to imply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]

He was, in some paralysing way, conscious of his own defencelessness, though he had all the defence of privilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

He was not inclined to expose himself to the tender mercy of his worst enemy in a state of utter defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [False Front]

Stevie was weeping openly now, her shoulders hunched, that air of invulnerable competence shattered by her sudden defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

A sense of isolation intensified the family tie, a sense of the weakness of their position, a sense of defencelessness, in spite of, or because of, the title and the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

Her very defencelessness should have been her protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defence of Harriet Shelley] Reference

We may therefore conclude that the wealth and defencelessness of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference

Hurstwood, with the usual defencelessness of youth, stood tongue-tied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death at the Opera]

We see everywhere how our soldiers respect the sacred defencelessness of woman and child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gems (?) of German Thought] Reference

I have set forth the main facts touching our military defencelessness without exaggeration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory] Reference

He is shown with his skinny arms held behind his back, a symbol of both defiance and defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie's letters] Reference

The defencelessness of the position at Cabul had long engaged the solicitude of men who were no alarmists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80] Reference

You will not think I have presumed upon your defencelessness -- been too quick and unreflecting, will you? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference

The cynic of a moment ago had dropped suddenly into a sleep of more than childish weakness and defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference

The touch of the fragrant skin thrilled him with pride and joy; so did the lovely defencelessness of the child's sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marriage à la mode] Reference

She was wise enough to know that in contending with a chivalrous man a woman's strongest defence is her defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

Their first care is to provide for their safety, and the first step is to know the exact extent of their defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

One after another the feelings of the child's defencelessness dropped and gave place to the harder ones of the individual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01] Reference

She did not forget his moving defencelessness the first morning in his towel, and he amused her, and he was kind to Lotty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted April] Reference

He repudiated any complicity in the defencelessness of the great wood of Conoloathe, and the country between the Dingle and Kilkenny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

Some time a refuge had been needed: but so long ago, that the years of calm security had wiped out even the thought of defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference

The judge said he took into account the defencelessness of the girl, the harm to her and the family, and magnitude of the breach of trust.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But Rose submitted to the ordinary if antiquated code, which implies the timidity and defencelessness of young women whenever and wherever assailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Houseful of Girls] Reference

In his desperation he suddenly stopped, turned round and stretching out both of his arms, rushed, in his utter defencelessness, upon the armed warrior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky] Reference

Very beautifully does Peter hint at our sore conflict, our personal defencelessness, and our all-sufficient armour, in the picturesque metaphor 'arm yourselves.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

Ireland is on her feet, with nothing in her hands, impregnable, unassailable, in utter defencelessness, -- the first time that ever a nation sprung to its feet unarmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

A pitying sense of their defencelessness when they are to be left alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV] Reference

He has frightened me by his account of the defencelessness of the Province at this moment. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

You will not think I have presumed upon your defencelessness -- been too quick and unreflecting, will you? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference

And peace is torn from its defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference

Its defencelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia] Reference