puissance

puissance is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Power; strength; might; force; potency. " Youths of puissance." Tennyson. The power and puissance of the king. Shak. Note: In Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, puissance and puissant are usually dissyllables.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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