Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Power; might.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Power; strength; force; vigor.
- noun Jurisdiction; power; control.
- noun Armed force.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Power; strength; might; force; potency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Power ,might orpotency . - noun The high-jump component of the sport of
show jumping .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun power to influence or coerce
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Could pissens be French-based Creole (maybe Haitian, if the ad was made in America), as in French "puissance" (power, potential, see Chinese neng 能)?
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O thou of beautiful smiles, Word is a cow, in consequence of her puissance which is both divine and not divine.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Well, what Spenser did with practically every Western myth, epic, and writer before him makes Faulkner look like a pre-schooler using slight of hand to hide a coin), his passion, his facility with language (that is, if you ignore the occasional "puissance"), his psychological insight.
Telecommuter Talk 2009
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Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.
Public Speaking 2009
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Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.
Milestones 2009
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Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.
Paris 2009
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As a mark of his noble puissance, shops and restaurants throughout the city unhesitatingly honored his money at full face value.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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How, Dalgliesh wondered, had the sculptor managed to convey the sweetness and the obstinacy of that individual smile, to model compassion and yet reduce it to self-delusion, to show humility garbed in a monk's habit -nd yet convey an overriding impression of the puissance of evil.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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As a mark of his noble puissance, shops and restaurants throughout the city unhesitatingly honored his money at full face value.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.
Milestones 2009
chained_bear commented on the word puissance
This word is one of the few that is wholly Shakespearean in my view.
I also like to say "wholly."
April 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word puissance
"Where is the graveyard of dead gods? What lingering mourner waters their mounds? There was a time when Jupiter was the king of the gods, and any man who doubted his puissance was ipso facto a barbarian and an ignoramus. But where in all the world is there a man who worships Jupiter today?
- H. L. Mencken, 'Where is the graveyard of dead gods?'
September 29, 2008
5814738 commented on the word puissance
"Important people came in from the farther corners of the Barony, and there were a good many Conversationals leading up to the main Conversational on Reaping Day. Susan was expeccted to be present at these--mostly as a decorative testimony to the Mayor's continuing puissance." From Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.
January 28, 2011