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Definition of Impotently
1. Adverb. In a helpless manner. "The crowd watched him helplessly"
Definition of Impotently
1. adv. In an impotent manner.
Definition of Impotently
1. Adverb. In an impotent manner. ¹
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Definition of Impotently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impotently
Literary usage of Impotently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"boundless blue of ether, instead of the difficult and stumbling struggle in which
the soul clings impotently to crag and root, only at last to be shattered ..."
2. The Gate of Death: A Diary by Arthur Christopher Benson (1906)
"... day a near and humble postern into the realms of light, when I had been making
a weary pilgrimage afar off, and beating impotently at pompous doorways. ..."
3. England on the Witness Stand: The Anglo-German Case Tried by a Jury of by Frederick Franklin Schrader (1915)
"Germany must see to its own safety, and Prince Bismarck can/not reasonably be
expected to pass his declining days impotently watching the silent conspiracy ..."
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