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defencelessness

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Noun1.defencelessnessdefencelessness - the property of being helpless in the face of attack
defenselessness, unprotectedness
vulnerability - susceptibility to injury or attack
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Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations; and there might even be one in which a woman naturally sensitive and aloof would yet, from the force of circumstances, from sheer defencelessness and loneliness, be drawn into a tie inexcusable by conventional standards.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
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