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Another word for impotence

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impotence

n.

Sterility
infertility, unproductiveness, infecundity; see barrenness.
Weakness
powerlessness, helplessness, feebleness, infirmity; see inability, weakness 1.

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Another word for impotence

noun

The condition or state of being incapable of accomplishing or effecting anything:

helplessness, inadequacy, incapability, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficacy, powerlessness, uselessness. See affect, strong

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Despite the immorality and impotence of Henry III.
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.
To impotence; fortunately for him, howBergerac ever, the break of the Huguenots with the MalSeveith contents, and the divisions in the court of Navarre War and and in the various parties at La Rochelle, allowed peace of Henry III., after two little wars in the south west, ~ during which fighting gradually degenerated into brigandage, to sign terms of peace at Bergerac (1577),
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.
It was this impotence of the state commission that furnished the strongest incentive to Congressional action.

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