All 5 Uses of
impotent
in
Catch-22
- He was overcome with a humiliating feeling of impotence and was ready to weep in self-pity.†
Chpt 15 *
- Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?†
Chpt 27
- To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.†
Chpt 27
- He imagined the awful impotence of breathing in helplessly quarts and quarts of water.†
Chpt 30
- It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(impotent as in: impotent fury) lacking power or ability