"helplesse" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more helplesse [comparative], most helplesse [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} helplesse (comparative more helplesse, superlative most helplesse)
  1. Obsolete spelling of helpless. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: helpless
    Sense id: en-helplesse-en-adj-IHU004Xd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,\nThey on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.",
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          "ref": "1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "[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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