potence

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As such it is necessarily inferior to the sum total of its effects, and dependent for reality on these—in a word, a mere potence or becoming.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

Wolfe saw his aim, and sent Brigadier Townshend to counteract him with a regiment which was formed en potence, and supported by two battalions, presenting on the left a double front.

From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Irving, Washington

The vital significance of this new potence in blood to transform itself to milk for sustenance of offspring is emphasised by the fact that the Mammalia are warm-blooded creatures.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

Numerations proceed from potence into act with the first Adam, 795-u.

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