01 n. The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imb…
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The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.“Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples.” — Hayward.“O, impotence of mind in body strong!” — Milton.
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Lack of self-restraint or self-control.[R.]
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Lack of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness;(Law & Med.)