potence
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In the image he believed he somehow possessed the object itself, and so could control it; to the image, therefore, was transferred all the value and potence of the object.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker
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
If this dose should not be sufficient, we prepare a new potence by throwing away three tablespoonfuls of the former solution and substituting four tablespoonfuls of fresh water, shaking the mixture well.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
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
Cobham’s and Kerr’s dragoons flanked them en potence.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
