Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HELP'LESS-NESS
HELP'LESS-NESS, n.
Want of strength or ability; inability; want of means in one's self to obtain relief in trouble or to accomplish one's purposes or desires. It is the tendency of sickness to reduce our extravagant self-estimation, by exhibiting our solitary helplessness. Buckminster.
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