impotency
noun1
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:
- Byron hasn't been the same since the impotency set in ten years ago, poor bludger.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 188: