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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
helpless .
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Examples
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But teares and lamentations are now helpelesse, because as easily mayest thou plucke the Starres from the Firmament, as get againe the least doyt of thy losse.
The Decameron 2004
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Ne let house-fyres, nor lightnings helpelesse harmes, 340
Epithalamion 1919
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Ne let house-fyres, nor lightnings helpelesse harmes, 340
Epithalamion 1909
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Ne let housefyres, nor lightnings helpelesse harmes,
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But helpelesse now, we rowe a shore to know th'end of our paine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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"[P] oore couples," "helpelesse neighbours in distresse," and "the toyle and trauell of the countrey" have already been noted.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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But helpelesse now, we rowe a shore to know th’end of our paine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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313: With vrging helpelesse patience would releeue me;
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340: Ne let house-fyres, nor lightnings helpelesse harmes,
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