potence
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of potence
1375–1425; late Middle English < Old French < Latin potentia potency
Example Sentences
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They rob them, accordingly, of the greatest transfiguring potence and happiness of life.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
Of earth the bold, Where the blind matter wrings An awful potence out of impotence, Bowing the spiritual things To the things of sense.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
The tattered garments, hanging from their lances, the guillotine, and the potence, with the effigy of the queen suspended from it, traversed the Assembly with impunity.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
Cobham’s and Kerr’s dragoons flanked them en potence.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
Universe in potence followed the Idea of Creation in Deity, 767-u.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
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