Impotence /(?)/
Im·po·tence
Impotence
n.
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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.
O, impotence of mind in body strong!
- Lack of self-restraint or self-control. [R.]
- Lack of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness; (Law & Med.)