Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
impotence .
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- noun Dated form of
impotence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
- noun an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
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Examples
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Edge: just what part of they are letting those people DIE between photo ops for the chimp and incompetency don’t you comprehend? rage and impotency is what I and many are feeling.
Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 2005
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They had no choice but to resort to amnesia and intermittent power impotency, which is always completely hackneyed and boring.
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He needs to demonstrate that Clinton bullying, from both Bill and Hillary, has become a study in impotency.
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There is in the minds of unregenerate persons a moral impotency, which is reflected on them greatly from the will and affections, whence the mind never will receive spiritual things, -- that is, it will always and unchangeably reject and refuse them, -- and that because of various lusts, corruptions, and prejudices invincibly fixed in them, causing them to look on them as foolishness.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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The impotency which is a cause of nullity is the incapacity of having conjugal relations
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Believe me though that I have a kind of impotency of study. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Believe me though that I have a kind of impotency of study. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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March 18, 1775: -- 'I have a kind of impotency of study.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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Boswell wrote to Temple on March 18, 1775: ” 'I have a kind of impotency of study.'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The warning that I try to remember, every day, is to resist the advance of the impotency, of the insensitivity, of the desperation, of the nihilism.
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