Meaning of Potency | Babel Free

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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