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impuissance

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Borrowed from Middle French impuissance.

noun impuissances

uncountable, usually 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.

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@misc{impuissance_2026,
  title = {impuissance},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/impuissance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}