potence

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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 three brigades on the right flank will be faced to the left and marched forward; the head of this column still forming en potence with the front line.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

In the image he believed he somehow possessed the object itself, and so could control it; to the image, therefore, was transferred all the value and potence of the object.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

Then suddenly it waked, for the moon was sinking, and the charm had lost its potence.

From My Friend the Chauffeur by Lowenheim, Frederic

Corona, Crown, contained in potence the ten numerations, 754-l.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert