potence

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Thus I shall venture to use potence, in order to express a specific degree of a power, in imitation of the Algebraists.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

It hath the potence of a charm, On dulness lays a conquering arm, Subjects the mind to its control, And works its will upon the soul.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur