potence

American  

[poht-ns] / ˈpoʊt ns /

noun

1. potency.

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Etymology

Origin of potence

1375–1425; late Middle English < Old French < Latin potentia potency

Example Sentences

Numerations proceed from potence into act with the first Adam, 795-u.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

But in this there is no disadvantage; factors of such sovereign potence do not suffer from repetition.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

In truth, the concentration of his thought on the fragment of stone had been enough of itself to give a talisman occult potence.

From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Baily, Waldron

Accordingly, at dinner I again took the field, en potence.

From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington