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
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
A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.
From Faust by Taylor, Bayard
Infinite in essence, we crave it in potence.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
The second division, under major general Desha, composed of Allen's and Caldwell's brigades, was formed en potence, or at right angles to the first division.
From Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Drake, Benjamin
