potence

Example Sentences

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

From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington

In truth, the concentration of his thought on the fragment of stone had been enough of itself to give a talisman occult potence.

From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Baily, Waldron

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

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

Infinite in essence, we crave it in potence.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

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