potence
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Any attempt to enfilade his front by passing along the other flank was met by the broadsides of the six or eight ships drawn up en potence to the rear.
From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
But in this there is no disadvantage; factors of such sovereign potence do not suffer from repetition.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
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 Arabella Kenealy
Then suddenly it waked, for the moon was sinking, and the charm had lost its potence.
From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim
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
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