impotency
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[edit]Noun
[edit]impotency (usually uncountable, plural impotencies)
- (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.
References
[edit]- “impotency”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.