impotency

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Noun

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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.

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