Both Uses of
impotent
in
Brave New World
- Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.†
p. 69..1 *
- Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.†
p. 240..6
Definition:
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(impotent as in: impotent fury) lacking power or ability