potence
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of potence
1375–1425; late Middle English < Old French < Latin potentia potency
Example Sentences
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Thus I shall venture to use potence, in order to express a specific degree of a power, in imitation of the Algebraists.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Conversely the Fr. potence, gallows, meant originally a bracket or support, Lat. potentia, power.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
To true divinities such power some grant; And power to compass more;—to Bacchus none Such potence own.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
If this dose should not be sufficient, we prepare a new potence by throwing away three tablespoonfuls of the former solution and substituting four tablespoonfuls of fresh water, shaking the mixture well.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
Great, indeed, is the potence of "environment"; greater, by far, the potence of heredity.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
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