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Impotence   /ˈɪmpətəns/   Listen
noun
Impotency, Impotence  n.  
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." "O, impotence of mind in body strong!"
2.
Lack of self-restraint or self-control. (R.)
3.
(Law & Med.) Lack of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness; specifically, in males: The inability to achieve or sustain a penile erection; erectile dysfunction.






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"Impotence" Quotes from Famous Books



... days is mostly impotence! Lust and passion and love and marriage! Why do our dull insular minds mix up these four entirely separate notions? And how can we jump with such goat-like agility from one circle of thought into another without ever noticing the change in ...
— Kimono • John Paris

... after opposing him at every turn, suddenly beckon him up the street and into his cabin just as Chatwourth and his gang came down? And why, if he was innocent of any share in the plot, did Diffenderfer refuse to testify to the facts? Denver ground his teeth at the thought of his own impotence, shut up there like a dog in the pound. He was helpless, and ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge

... loose and negligent, The sight on't wou'd beget a warm desire In Souls, whom Impotence and Age had chill'd. —This must ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... becoming daily more difficult, and I soon passed from utter impotence to a state of inexplicable agitation. Every morning I arose with fine resolutions and grand projects of work; only to go to bed that night without having accomplished anything. I spent hours leaning on my balcony, or wandering through the network ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee

... from me. I felt it with an impotence of despair that was benumbing. Yet I could not speak of it, for at first I could hardly tell if she knew of what was taking place. Indeed, at this moment, in thinking it over, I do not believe that for some time she had any definite cognisance of the fact that ...
— The Return Of The Soul - 1896 • Robert S. Hichens


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