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impotencies

impotencies is the plural of impotency.

Meaning of impotency

Noun

impotency (usually uncountable, plural impotencies)

  1. (dated, usually) impotence
    • Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples.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

Questions about impotencies

What is impotencies the plural of?
Impotencies is the plural of impotency.

Words near impotencies in the dictionary

  1. imposures
  2. impot
  3. impotable
  4. impotence
  5. impotences
  6. impotencies
  7. impotency
  8. impotent
  9. impotentia coeundi
  10. impotentia generandi
  11. impotently

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