potence

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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 Kenealy, Arabella

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Without delay an advance was made en potence, and it was confidently anticipated that Stamboul would fall before the insurgent arms.

From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by Arbuthnot, George

They rob them, accordingly, of the greatest transfiguring potence and happiness of life.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella