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Powerlessness   /pˈaʊərləsnəs/   Listen
Powerlessness

noun
1.
The quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble.  Synonyms: impotence, impotency.





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"Powerlessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... either to her own desire to love Him, or to the extent of His claims on her love. This suffering the Venerable Mother experienced in its fullest intensity. From, her insatiable desire of a more perfect love, sprang a fixed impression of her utter powerlessness to do any thing for, or give any thing to the great and generous God who had given her Himself, and with Himself all things. "Thou hast made me for Thyself, O God!" she would say; "for Thyself who art Love; why then should I not speak of love? But alas! what can I say of it? I cannot ...
— The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation • "A Religious of the Ursuline Community"


Words linked to "Powerlessness" :   uninterestingness, ineffectiveness, powerfulness, impuissance, quality, helplessness, paper tiger, voicelessness, power, weakness, ineffectualness, powerless, unpersuasiveness, ineffectuality


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