impotence
[ im-puh-tuhns ]
Origin of impotence
1- Also im·po·ten·cy, im·po·tent·ness .
Words that may be confused with impotence
- 1. impetus, impotence
- 2. importance, impotence
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How to use impotence in a sentence
He ridicules their morals and their offices as severely as he points out their impotency to bestow happiness.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordThus within two months the total impotency of the Frankfort Assembly was signally proved.
Revolution and Counter-Revolution | Karl MarxThis certainly is the dominant note of Tchekoff's philosophy: the impotency of living mitigated by a vague hope of progress.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyEngland, how hast thou been cursed by debt and blood through the impotency and villany of thy rulers!
And as a straight line continued grows a circle, he had given them so infinite a power, that it was extended unto impotency.
Andrew Marvell | Augustine Birrell
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