potence
Example Sentences
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Femaleness, or Recessiveness, on its side, however—being Life-Energy in the potential—is all the while engendering new potence for Dominance to transform into active, or functioning, power.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
The potence and the values of fine motherhood are proven by the fact that every great, or good, or clever man or woman has been the child of a great, or good, or clever mother.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
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 Albert Pike
The three brigades on the right flank will be faced to the left and marched forward; the head of this column still forming en potence with the front line.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
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 Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
