unweaponed

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ weaponed.

Adjective

unweaponed (not comparable)

  1. Not armed with a weapon.
    • 1908, Elizabeth Miller, The City of Delight‎[1]:
      If the hour and the circumstance and the cause will but unite us, this unweaponed host will stretch away at once in majestic orders of tens of thousands--legions upon legions that would shame Xerxes for numbers and that first Caesar for strength.
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:
      He it was who alone and unweaponed had struggled with Grendel, and he who heedless had swam to the depths of the tarn to kill the she-ogre.
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