potence
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Idea in Deity was the Universe in potence; the sequence was involved, 767-u.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
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 William Benjamin Smith
It doubtless is used as a charm of potence by some desert tribe.
From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
A rare few of these because they are so richly endowed with maternal potence that the subconscious processes have remained, as Nature doubtless intended, for the most part subconscious and painless.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
Conversely the Fr. potence, gallows, meant originally a bracket or support, Lat. potentia, power.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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