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weaponless, a.|ˈwɛpənlɪs|
[f. weapon n. + -less.]
a. Without weapons or a weapon; unarmed.
a1000in Napier OE. Glosses i. 724 Inermes quosque, .i. sine armis, .i. uniuersos, ᵹehwylce wæpenlease. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxix. 175 Wundor-lic godes gifu þæt þam wæpenleasan menn ne mihton þa wælhreowan mid wæpnum wið-standan. 1390Gower Conf. III. 181 He sette a lawe for the pes, That non, but he be wepneles, Schal come into the conseil hous. c1430Lybeaus Disc. 366 Hyt wer greet vylanye To do a knyght to deye Wepeneles yn place. 1548Udall etc. Erasm. Par. Mark vi. 6–9 He sent them out weaponlesse, leste that mans aydes shoulde chalenge any thing in this heauenly busynesse. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. v. 14 Soone as the knight she there by her did spy, Standing with emptie hands all weaponlesse. 1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Wars v. 140 The defendants being suffered to depart away weaponlesse. 1671Milton Samson 130 [He] Ran on embattelld Armies clad in Iron, And weaponless himself, Made Arms ridiculous. 1795Southey Joan of Arc ii. 100 Here the poor captives, weaponless and bound, Saw their stern victors draw again the sword. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iii. ii. 95 A lone, unguarded, weaponless old man. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 399 Take my sword, and leave me weaponless. 1895Scully Kafir Stories 96 Naked and weaponless fugitives from the Tonga and other tribes.
fig.1629Rutherford Let. to Mar. M‘Naught 17 Nov., Lett. (1891) 45 My Captain, Christ, hath said, I must fight and overcome the world, and with a weak, spoiled, weaponless devil. 1680C. Nesse Church Hist. 32 God will not war with a weaponless devil.
b. transf. Of an animal: Without natural means of attack or defence.
1537Coverdale Expos. Ps. xxii A viij b, Loke how lytle a naturall shepe can kepe, gyde, rule, saue or defende it selfe agaynst daunger and mysfortune (for it is a feble and wapenlesse beast). 1644J. Strickland Immanuel 6 Dennes or burroughes where weaponlesse creatures find shelter when they are hunted. 1666J. Smith Old Age 58 That audacious Carper at the works of God (who complained that other Creatures had naturally a defence given, and man only left weaponless).
c. Not containing a weapon.
1863Thornbury True as Steel III. 327 ‘What a poor soldier am I’ said the Ritter..looking down to his weaponless belt. |