potence

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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 Kenealy, Arabella

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

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 Pike, Albert

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.

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