| 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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