Both Uses of
impotent
in
Gulliver's Travels
- "He was amazed, how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I" (these were his expressions) "could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines; whereof," he said, "some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver.†
Chpt 2
- Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(impotent as in: impotent fury) lacking power or ability