potency

How To Use potency In A Sentence

• Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm 
• If you are hearing the same voice all the time, it loses its potency, it loses its edge. Times, Sunday Times
• The scorpions hereabouts are known for the potency of their venom. Somewhere East of Life
• The complementary substances or substituent groups with which these nuclei are more or less firmly combined in nature exert a stabilizing and perhaps otherwise favorable influence on the curative nucleus, but do not themselves possess the vitamine type of physiological potency. The Vitamine Manual
• Before he can physic the evil of Claudius he is himself dying; only then does he force Claudius to feel the potency of his own poisons.
• Repeated studies have shown that men reach their peak potency at 18, while women do not gain the ability to achieve full sexual satisfaction until their mid-thirties.
• The tale of the Fisher King involves a king who is lame in one leg (a euphemism for impotency) which in turn causes the land to become barren (infertile).
• One consequence of the astonishing potency of the MIA myth is the refrain of today's American war films that no one must be left behind.
• The myth of male superiority was losing its potency.
• Its numbers reduce but their potency is increased. The Sun