potency
/ˈpəʊtənsi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
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."
- "Beset on either hand by potencies greater than himself, he becomes the battle-ground of immortals."
- "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."