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Word Meanings - DEFENSELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. -- De*fense"less*ly, adv. -- De*fense"less*ness, n.

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  • LAAGER
    A camp, esp. one with an inclosure of travelers' wagons for temporary defense. Wagons . . . can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts.
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • EXPOSTULATOR
    One who expostulates. Lamb.
  • EXPOSITION
    1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • EXPOSTULATE
    To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring
  • EXPOSE
    1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
  • EXPOSITOR
    One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
  • EXPOSTULATION
    The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.
  • UNGUARD
    To deprive of a guard; to leave unprotected. Sterne.
  • EXPOSITORY
    Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
  • EXPOST FACTO; EXPOSTFACTO
    From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with
  • EXPOSTURE
    Exposure. Shak.
  • EXPOSTULATORY
    Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.
  • EXPOSITIVE
    Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.
  • DEFENSELESS
    Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. -- De*fense"less*ly, adv. -- De*fense"less*ness, n.
  • EXPOSURE
    The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. (more info) 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of
  • EXPOSAL
    Exposure. Swift.
  • MISEXPOSITION
    Wrong exposition.
  • INEXPOSURE
    A state of not being exposed.
  • OVEREXPOSE
    To expose excessively; specif. ,

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