potency

Definition

Power, authority.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin potentia. Doublet of Potenza.

Example Sentences

• "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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