impotency

English

Noun

impotency (usually uncountable, plural impotencies)

  1. (dated) impotence
    • 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:
      Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples.
    • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 188:
      Byron hasn't been the same since the impotency set in ten years ago, poor bludger.

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