Definition of "defenceless" []

• Without defence; undefended. (adjective)

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• "They were both outsiders, social lightning conductors, defenceless from the start."
• "Thank your relationship to my sister that I punish you no further, and learn that to use other men's arms to strike the defenceless is a stain upon nobility. '"
• "Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla was on Wednesday accused of grossly violating the human rights of 384 "defenceless" prisoners by refusing to consider and process their applications for presidential pardons."