Meanings of defenceless state in English

This hideous spectacle brought his mother's defenceless state before the eyes of Sobieski.

He "wanted no guff," and I left him to his meditations respecting his defenceless state.

But the city was no longer in the defenceless state in which it was when they first crossed the Loire.

The pretext was the defenceless state of their flocks and herds, the real reason an itching for cloth and tobacco.

Tribunes, is this bringing aid to the commons, to expose them in a defenceless state to be butchered by the enemy?

Mr. Falconbridge, however, dared not rescue him, lest, in the defenceless state of his own town, retaliation might be made upon him.

But men in this defenceless state naturally content themselves with their necessary subsistence; because, to acquire more, might only tempt the injustice of their oppressors.

To Sir Horace Mann, May 16.- Defenceless state of Minorca.

"But, my dear," said I, "what am I to do in my present defenceless state of clothing, if he should take to pecking?"