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n. - The quality of lacking strength or power; An inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate.

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  • He needs to demonstrate that Clinton bullying, from both Bill and Hillary, has become a study in impotency.
  • They had no choice but to resort to amnesia and intermittent power impotency, which is always completely hackneyed and boring.
  • Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain.
  • March 18, 1775: -- 'I have a kind of impotency of study.'
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