impotence

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, variant of impotencie, from Latin impotentia “lack of self-control, weakness”; see -ence, im-², potency

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH impotence

1. impetus, impotence 2. importance, impotence

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 Lord
Thus within two months the total impotency of the Frankfort Assembly was signally proved.
Revolution and Counter-Revolution|Karl Marx
This certainly is the dominant note of Tchekoff's philosophy: the impotency of living mitigated by a vague hope of progress.
Contemporary Russian Novelists|Serge Persky
England, how hast thou been cursed by debt and blood through the impotency and villany of thy rulers!
Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2)|Lady Anne Hamilton

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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