Both Uses
latent
in
Native Son
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- 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 2latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- Who, then, fanned this latent hate into fury?
Book 3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(latent) potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)