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impotency en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (dated, uncountable, usually) impotence
    • 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 188:
    • 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:

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