impotencen.

/ˈɪmpətəns/

Forms: Also Middle English -in, ym-.

Etymology: < French impotence (13th cent.) = Spanish impotencia , Italian impotenzia , < Latin impotentia (see impotency n.).

1. Want of strength or power to perform anything; utter inability or weakness; helplessness.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of power > [noun]

un-i-waldeOE

impotencea1420

debility1525

unpowerfulness1625

impuissance1645

imprevalencea1656

imprevalencya1656

impuissancy1701

weakness1838

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > utter inability or powerlessness

unmightinessOE

non-powera1387

unpowerc1400

impotencea1420

palsya1450

impossibilityc1450

impotencyc1460

impuissance1483

impotentness1530

powerlessness1650

enervity1656

paralysis1809

nervelessness1857

a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4654 Hir [= their] impotence Strecchiþ naght so fer as his influence.

1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. v. 129 Readie to cast imputations of leuity, or impotence vpon God.

1656 T. Hobbes Questions Liberty, Necessity & Chance 286 A sick or lame man's liberty to go..is an impotence and not a power or a liberty.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 52 O impotence of mind, in body strong!

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) II. xliii. 612 Every accident betrayed the impotence of the government.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xiv, in Writings I. 143 The old man..wrung his hands in the very impotence of sorrow.

1869 A. C. Swinburne in S. T. Coleridge Christabel Introd. p. xiv Alike by his powers and his impotences, by his capacity and his defect, Coleridge was inapt for dramatic poetry.

a. Want of physical power; feebleness of body, as through illness or old age.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness

faintise1297

weaknessa1300

faintc1320

feebleness1340

languishingc1384

lamea1400

unferea1400

unferenessa1400

unwielda1400

impotence1406

imbecility?a1425

languisha1425

languoringa1438

unwieldness1437

faintnessa1440

impotency1440

infirmityc1440

debility1484

unlustiness1486

resolution1547

unwieldiness1575

languishment1576

infirmness1596

weakness1603

prostrationa1626

exolution1634

languidness1634

prosternation1650

faintingnessa1661

debilitude1669

flaccidity1676

atony1693

puniness1727

faintishness1733

adynamia1743

asthenia1802

adynamy1817

weakliness1826

tonelessness1873

atonicity1900

1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 443 As I saide, reewe on myn impotence, Þat likly am to sterue yit or eeue.

c1445 J. Lydgate Testament in Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 246 He can no moor diffence, Than crokyd age in his moost impotence.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 99 b/1 It happed that two of them..a brother and a suster cam to y [m] potence.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 66 Grieued, That so his sickenesse, age, and impotence, Was falsely borne in hand.

a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) i. 13 Any rich man who through age, or other impotence is unable to serve the Publick.

1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 15 Which [chronic diseases] slowly but surely reduce the body politic to a condition of impotence and dotage.

b. Pathology. Complete absence of sexual power: usually said of the male.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > reproductive organ disorders > [noun] > of male > impotence

frigidity1586

impotency1594

impotence1655

agennesia1823

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 142 Whilest Papists crie up this his incredible Continency: others easily unwonder the same, by imputing it partly to his Impotence, afflicted with an Infirmitie.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iii. ii. 373 Is it some mysterious interference of heaven, which..strikes the men with impotence, and the women with barrenness?

1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. II. 319/2 Impotence may exist in either sex, but most commonly in the male.

†3. Lack of self-restraint, violent passion. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun]

woodnessc1000

furyc1374

ferteec1380

ragea1393

violencea1393

excess1423

zeala1425

vehemence1445

extremity1509

franticnessa1529

vehemency1534

wildnessc1540

impotency1542

violent1576

distraughture1594

distraught1610

distractiona1616

distractedness?1617

entrancement1637

distractfulnessa1640

impotencea1640

transportment1639

transportednessa1656

violent1667

whirl1707

rave1765

Sturm und Drang1857

storm and stress1879

a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman ii. i. 52 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) The being your Sister would anew inflame me With much more impotence to dote upon her.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 156 Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike through impotence, or unaware..?

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiv. 53 The dire Achilles..A Lion, not a Man, who slaughters wide In Strength of Rage and Impotence of Pride.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	impotence
释义	impotencen. /ˈɪmpətəns/ Forms: Also Middle English -in, ym-. Etymology: < French impotence (13th cent.) = Spanish impotencia , Italian impotenzia , < Latin impotentia (see impotency n.). 1. Want of strength or power to perform anything; utter inability or weakness; helplessness. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [noun] un-i-waldeOE impotencea1420 debility1525 unpowerfulness1625 impuissance1645 imprevalencea1656 imprevalencya1656 impuissancy1701 weakness1838 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > utter inability or powerlessness unmightinessOE non-powera1387 unpowerc1400 impotencea1420 palsya1450 impossibilityc1450 impotencyc1460 impuissance1483 impotentness1530 powerlessness1650 enervity1656 paralysis1809 nervelessness1857 a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4654 Hir [= their] impotence Strecchiþ naght so fer as his influence. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. v. 129 Readie to cast imputations of leuity, or impotence vpon God. 1656 T. Hobbes Questions Liberty, Necessity & Chance 286 A sick or lame man's liberty to go..is an impotence and not a power or a liberty. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 52 O impotence of mind, in body strong! View more context for this quotation 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) II. xliii. 612 Every accident betrayed the impotence of the government. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xiv, in Writings I. 143 The old man..wrung his hands in the very impotence of sorrow. 1869 A. C. Swinburne in S. T. Coleridge Christabel Introd. p. xiv Alike by his powers and his impotences, by his capacity and his defect, Coleridge was inapt for dramatic poetry. 2. a. Want of physical power; feebleness of body, as through illness or old age. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness faintise1297 weaknessa1300 faintc1320 feebleness1340 languishingc1384 lamea1400 unferea1400 unferenessa1400 unwielda1400 impotence1406 imbecility?a1425 languisha1425 languoringa1438 unwieldness1437 faintnessa1440 impotency1440 infirmityc1440 debility1484 unlustiness1486 resolution1547 unwieldiness1575 languishment1576 infirmness1596 weakness1603 prostrationa1626 exolution1634 languidness1634 prosternation1650 faintingnessa1661 debilitude1669 flaccidity1676 atony1693 puniness1727 faintishness1733 adynamia1743 asthenia1802 adynamy1817 weakliness1826 tonelessness1873 atonicity1900 1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 443 As I saide, reewe on myn impotence, Þat likly am to sterue yit or eeue. c1445 J. Lydgate Testament in Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 246 He can no moor diffence, Than crokyd age in his moost impotence. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 99 b/1 It happed that two of them..a brother and a suster cam to y [m] potence. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 66 Grieued, That so his sickenesse, age, and impotence, Was falsely borne in hand. a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) i. 13 Any rich man who through age, or other impotence is unable to serve the Publick. 1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 15 Which [chronic diseases] slowly but surely reduce the body politic to a condition of impotence and dotage. b. Pathology. Complete absence of sexual power: usually said of the male. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > reproductive organ disorders > [noun] > of male > impotence frigidity1586 impotency1594 impotence1655 agennesia1823 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 142 Whilest Papists crie up this his incredible Continency: others easily unwonder the same, by imputing it partly to his Impotence, afflicted with an Infirmitie. 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iii. ii. 373 Is it some mysterious interference of heaven, which..strikes the men with impotence, and the women with barrenness? 1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. II. 319/2 Impotence may exist in either sex, but most commonly in the male. †3. Lack of self-restraint, violent passion. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] woodnessc1000 furyc1374 ferteec1380 ragea1393 violencea1393 excess1423 zeala1425 vehemence1445 extremity1509 franticnessa1529 vehemency1534 wildnessc1540 impotency1542 violent1576 distraughture1594 distraught1610 distractiona1616 distractedness?1617 entrancement1637 distractfulnessa1640 impotencea1640 transportment1639 transportednessa1656 violent1667 whirl1707 rave1765 Sturm und Drang1857 storm and stress1879 a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman ii. i. 52 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) The being your Sister would anew inflame me With much more impotence to dote upon her. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 156 Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike through impotence, or unaware..? View more context for this quotation 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiv. 53 The dire Achilles..A Lion, not a Man, who slaughters wide In Strength of Rage and Impotence of Pride. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1406
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