Impotence definition

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Inability to copulate or beget children; sterility, erectile dysfunction, etc.
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The quality or condition of being impotent.
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The quality or condition of being impotent.
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The quality or condition of being impotent.
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Origin of impotence

  • From Middle French impotence, from Latin impotentia

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Impotence Sentence Examples

  • It was this impotence of the state commission that furnished the strongest incentive to Congressional action.

  • But those who, like the positivists, agnostics and sceptics, deny the possibility of metaphysics as a theory of the ultimate nature of things, are still obliged to retain philosophy as a theory of knowledge, in order to justify the asserted limitation or impotence of human reason.

  • The queen through out had only one thought, to shake off the impotence and humiliation of the crown; and for this end she still clung to the hope of foreign succour and corresponded with Vienna.

  • A prey to perpetual alarm, the people entrenched themselves behind those high walls of the oppida which Roman security had razed to the ground, but imperial impotence had restored, and where life in the middle ages was destined to vegetate in unrestful isolation.

  • Its internal weakness, between the danger of anarchy and the opposition of the monar chists, was extreme; and it soon became discredited by its own coups detat and by financial impotence in the eyes of a nation sick of revolution, aspiring towards peace and the resumption of economic undertakings.

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