impuissance
impuissance noun: impotence, weakness.
Noun
impuissance (usually uncountable, plural impuissances)
- Impotence, weakness.
- 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- [A]ll which things, bring perill to thoſe that know not how to uſe them well; and neither honour and credit, nor puiſſance, but rather argue their feebleneſse and impuiſſance.1603, Plutarch, “Of the Fortune or Vertue of King Alexander. The Second Oration.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC...
impuissance meaning in Tamil and Urdu
impuissance in Tamil
- வலிவின்மை
impuissance in Urdu
- بےبسی, کمزوری, نامردی, سستی
Forms of impuissance
| plural | impuissances |
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Origin of impuissance
Borrowed from Middle French impuissance.
Questions about impuissance
- What does impuissance mean?
- Impuissance means impotence, weakness.
- What is impuissance in Tamil?
- Impuissance in Tamil is வலிவின்மை. See Impuissance meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is impuissance?
- Impuissance is a noun.
- What is the plural of impuissance?
- The plural of impuissance is impuissances.
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