impuissance

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."
"[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."

Borrowed from Middle French impuissance.

impuissances (plural)

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