potency vs sinew

potency

noun
  • Concentration; strength 

  • Sexual virility: the ability to become erect or achieve orgasm. 

  • Potentiality, ability, capacity. 

  • Power, authority. 

  • The ability or capacity to perform something 

sinew

noun
  • That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay. 

  • A cord or tendon of the body. 

  • A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument. 

  • Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength. 

verb
  • To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews. 

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