potence
Example Sentences
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A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.
From Faust by Taylor, Bayard
Genius has never fruited to full bloom and potence, because the mothers have so seldom realised the greatness of their task.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
This is the theory of the importance of the individual, raised, so to speak, to its very highest potence.
From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Stephen, Leslie
But in this there is no disadvantage; factors of such sovereign potence do not suffer from repetition.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin
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 Kenealy, Arabella
