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potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- Who, then, fanned this latent hate into fury?Book Three - Fate (70% in)
latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- Because he could go now, run off if he wanted to and leave it all behind, he felt a certain sense of power, a power born of a latent capacity to live.Book Two - Flight (37% in)
There are no more uses of "latent" in Native Son.
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