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单词 impuissant
释义 impuissant, a.|ɪmˈpjuːɪsənt|
[a. F. impuissant (15th c.): see im-2 and puissant.]
Impotent, powerless, weak.
1629Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 127 How im-puissant and dejected they are.1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iv. (1682) 58 The Country made a prey to impuissant Enemies.1853Grote Greece ii. lxxxiv. XI. 113 An impuissant embrace of philosophy on the part of so great a potentate.1863Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis I. 188 Vain, and impuissant are the pity and commiseration of a feeble fellow-creature.
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