Meaning of helplesse | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of helpless.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes, They on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.”

“And euen in acute ſickneſſes, as Feauers and burning Agues, we account the patient moſt hopeleſſe and helpleſſe, when as he is paſt feeling of his ſickneſſe.”

“[H]ovv is it [a worm] vexed vvith the ſcorching beames [of the sun], and vvrings vp and dovvne, in an helpleſſe perplexity; not finding vvhere to ſhrovvd it ſelfe; hovv obnoxious is it to the ſoules of the ayre, to the feet of men, and beaſts?”

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