potence
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In the image he believed he somehow possessed the object itself, and so could control it; to the image, therefore, was transferred all the value and potence of the object.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.
From Faust by Taylor, Bayard
These three brigades formed the command of Major-General Henry; the whole of General Desha's division, consisting of two brigades, were formed en potence upon the left of Trotter.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand
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
Great, indeed, is the potence of "environment"; greater, by far, the potence of heredity.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin
