Potency

Definitions

1. Power, authority.
   countable, uncountable
2. The ability or capacity to perform something
   countable, uncountable
3. Sexual virility: the ability to become erect or achieve orgasm.
   countable, uncountable, usually
4. Concentration; strength
   countable, uncountable
5. Potentiality, ability, capacity.
   countable, uncountable
6. Cardinality.
   countable, dated, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I would to heauen I had your potencie, And you were Isabell: should it then be thus? No: I would tell⟳ what 'twere to be a Iudge, and what a prisoner.”

“The doctor is the modern master of the mythological realm, the knower of all the secret ways and words of potency.”

“Pliny the Elder states that, to increase⟳ sexual potency, the right testis of an ass should be worn in a bracelet.”

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