potence

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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

These three brigades formed the command of Major-General Henry; the whole of General Desha's division, consisting of two brigades, were formed en potence upon the left of Trotter.

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

Great, indeed, is the potence of "environment"; greater, by far, the potence of heredity.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

To true divinities such power some grant; And power to compass more;—to Bacchus none Such potence own.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

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