Definition of "offenceless" [offenceless]

• Alternative form of offenseless. (adjective)

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• "What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours."
• "What! man; there are ways to recover the general again; you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion."
• "I thought a man would have been ashamed to punish the pure self-defence of folk so offenceless as the Belgians."