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Impotently

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im·po·tent  (mp-tnt)
adj.
1. Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak.
2. Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless: "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent" Freeman J. Dyson.
3.
a. Incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection.
b. Sterile. Used of males.
4. Obsolete Lacking self-restraint.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin impotns, impotent- : in-, not; see in-1 + potns, potent; see potent.]
impo·tent·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.Impotentlyimpotently - in a helpless manner; "the crowd watched him helplessly"
helplessly, unable to help


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The severest pointed harpoon, the sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds from it.
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Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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About eleven o'clock they were passing over the basin of Imenge, and the tribes scattered over the adjacent hills were impotently menacing the Victoria with their weapons.
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