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Definition of Helplessly
1. Adverb. In a helpless manner. "The crowd watched him helplessly"
Definition of Helplessly
1. Adverb. Without protection or assistance. ¹
2. Adverb. Without the ability to help oneself. ¹
3. Adverb. Without the ability to react actively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Helplessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helplessly
Literary usage of Helplessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"He leaned against the rail for some minutes speechless "I WAS ASTOUNDED TO FIND
HIM NOT ONLY GAGGED BUT helplessly BOUND. ..."
2. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... holding me in his arms helplessly. " Bring along his lordship, then," said
the man. " I'll carry the noble hearl." The Pole resumed the fiddle with a ..."
3. Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America by John William Draper (1875)
"And since plants and animals are found to change helplessly under such influences,
they are therefore illustrations of the control of UNIVERSAL LAW. ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"It is the conception she has today of America—that it is helplessly bound by
unseen powers, and that is the gospel she wants to preach. ..."
5. New Testament Theology: Or, Historical Account of the Teaching of Jesus and by Willibald Beyschlag, Neil Buchanan (1895)
"... therefore, the fetters of sin's bondage fall away, in which the most cultured
and the proudest children of the world are helplessly bound,—those " works ..."
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