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 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
It doubtless is used as a charm of potence by some desert tribe.
From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Stoker, Bram
They rob them, accordingly, of the greatest transfiguring potence and happiness of life.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
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
