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unarmedness

unarmedness noun: the quality of being unarmed; lack of weapons.

Noun

unarmedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unarmed; lack of weapons.
    • I saw with a sinking heart that their revolver holsters also were gone. Was it because of the Duke's plan, and by his direction, that they had been seduced into unarmedness?1914, John Reed Scott, The Duke of Oblivion, page 208

Origin of unarmedness

From unarmed + -ness.

Questions about unarmedness

What does unarmedness mean?
Unarmedness means the quality of being unarmed; lack of weapons.
What part of speech is unarmedness?
Unarmedness is a noun.

Words near unarmedness in the dictionary

  1. unaristocratically
  2. unarithmetical
  3. unarithmetically
  4. unarm
  5. unarmed
  6. unarmedness
  7. unarming
  8. unarmored
  9. unarmorial
  10. unarmour'd
  11. unarmoured

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