potence

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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

Conversely the Fr. potence, gallows, meant originally a bracket or support, Lat. potentia, power.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

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 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