All 4 Uses of
impotent
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- But this was a luxury of sensation that could not endure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.†
p. 138.8 *
- The monster saw my determination in my face and gnashed his teeth in the impotence of anger.†
p. 172.9
- But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness, that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was forever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.†
p. 222.7
- But in the detail which he gave you of them he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured wasting in impotent passions.†
p. 224.0
Definitions:
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(1)
(impotent as in: impotent fury) lacking power or ability
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(2)
(impotent as in: impotent, so no children) of a male: unable to have an erection for sexual intercourse, or unable to conceive a child