potence
Example Sentences
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A rare few of these because they are so richly endowed with maternal potence that the subconscious processes have remained, as Nature doubtless intended, for the most part subconscious and painless.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
Infinite in essence, we crave it in potence.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
As such it is necessarily inferior to the sum total of its effects, and dependent for reality on these—in a word, a mere potence or becoming.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
Conversely the Fr. potence, gallows, meant originally a bracket or support, Lat. potentia, power.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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
