helplesse

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English

Adjective

helplesse (comparative more helplesse, superlative most helplesse)

  1. Obsolete spelling of helpless.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
      They on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1630, Ios. Exon. [i.e., Joseph Hall of Exeter], “Upon a Worme”, in R H, editor, Occasionall Meditations, London: for Nath Butter, →OCLC, page 170:
      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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