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Webster 1913 Edition
Impotency
{
Im′po-tence
,Im′po-ten-cy
, }Noun.
[L.
impotenia
inability, poverty, lack of moderation. See Impotent
.] 1.
The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.
Some were poor by
impotency
of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward.
O,
impotence
of mind in body strong! Milton.
2.
Lack of self-restraint or self-control.
[R.]
Milton.