potence

Example Sentences

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Accordingly, at dinner I again took the field, en potence.

From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington

The tattered garments, hanging from their lances, the guillotine, and the potence, with the effigy of the queen suspended from it, traversed the Assembly with impunity.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.

Conversely the Fr. potence, gallows, meant originally a bracket or support, Lat. potentia, power.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Without delay an advance was made en potence, and it was confidently anticipated that Stamboul would fall before the insurgent arms.

From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by Arbuthnot, George

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 Kenealy, Arabella