| 释义 |
† non-power Obs.
Also 4 noun-, nom-power, 5 non-, nown-poiar.
[a. AF. nonpoair, OF. nonpooir: see non- 1 and power.]
Lack of power; impotence.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. v. (1868) 75 Ryȝt on þat same side nounpower entriþ vndirneþ þat makeþ hem wreches. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 310 Nouȝt of þe nounpowere of god þat he ne is myȝtful To amende al þat amys is. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 374 God mai not faile on his side for noun-power or unwitt. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 17341 And ȝe ar now of nom-power, Ne vs comes no help fer ne ner. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. vi. (1885) 121 All thes poiars comen of impotencie. And therfore thay mey properly by callid nown poiars. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 301 b/2, I haue herd thy commaundement and haue sene the nonpower of hym but I shal amende it. |