Impuissance
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 powerlessness revealed by an inability to act wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French impuissance.
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