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English
Noun
impotency (usually uncountable, plural impotencies)
- (dated) impotence
a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: 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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