Meanings
adjectivewhelpless (not comparable)
- not comparableWithout, or deprived of, a whelp.
Yet, even as the pearly drops trickled to the earth, his whole frame was shaken by a passion more terrible than the rage of the whelpless tigress.
1858, Jeremiah Clemens, Mustang Gray: A Romance, page 214
Origin
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