potence
Example Sentences
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Genius has never fruited to full bloom and potence, because the mothers have so seldom realised the greatness of their task.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
They rob them, accordingly, of the greatest transfiguring potence and happiness of life.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
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 William Benjamin Smith
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 Albert Pike
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
