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Impuissance   Listen
noun
Impuissance  n.  Lack of power; inability. "Their own impuissance and weakness."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Impuissance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Debarred on the one side from taking an active part in the administration of state affairs, and bitterly arraigned on the other on the grounds of inefficiency, laxity, and indifference to duty, the second month of office found John Barclay in a fair way to be ground to powder between the millstones of impuissance and hostile criticism. The men of his party who had, both in private conviction and public statement, based their hopes of political reform upon the frankly avowed platform of his principles, now passed him coldly, with a bare nod, sometimes with none whatever; the labor ...
— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl



Words linked to "Impuissance" :   weakness, powerlessness, helplessness, impuissant



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