powerlessness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]powerlessness (usually uncountable, plural powerlessnesses)
- The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 47:
- In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.
Translations
[edit]The state or character of being powerless
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “powerlessness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “powerlessness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.