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Impuissance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Impotence, weakness. uncountable, usually

    "This fault, for a man not to be able to know himselfe betimes, and not to feele the impuissance and extreme alteration, that age doth naturally bring,[…]hath lost the reputation of the most part of the greatest men in the world."

  2. 2
    powerlessness revealed by an inability to act wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French impuissance.

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