puissance

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noun energy

noun. person's spirit and vigor

early 15c., "power, strength, authority," from Old French puissance, poissance "power, might" (12c.), from puissant (see puissant).

Never before had she felt so profoundly the puissance of her sex.

He will always be a puissance; it remains to be seen in whose hands and for what objects.'

Might he not, by the puissance of gold, discover who were his real parents?

The duke followed with all his puissance, and set on his enimies.

Hearing her words, he realized the puissance of all-conquering, maternal love.

For without loue all the vertue and puissance of man is of no power and force.

And I shall not fail you, said Sir Dinadan, unto my puissance, upon my life.

There was puissance in her simplicity,—in her ignorance of that crust which he had so widely studied.

Or le sieur de Monts ayant l'authorit & puissance cy-deuant dicte, & assez bien muny, & accompagn partit de France l'an 1604.

Il a exprimé en même temps l'espoir qu'aucune grande Puissance ne commencerait les hostilités avant l'examen de cette formule.