Meanings
plural impotencies
- dateduncountableusuallyimpotence
Byron hasn't been the same since the impotency set in ten years ago, poor bludger.
1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 1881 more example
Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples.
a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
nounan inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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