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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pyoo-uh-suh ns, pyoo-is-uh ns, pwis-uh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpyu ə səns, pyuˈɪs əns, ˈpwɪs əns |
Definition of puissance
Origin :- early 15c., "power, strength, authority," from Old French puissance, poissance "power, might" (12c.), from puissant (see puissant).
- noun energy
- Never before had she felt so profoundly the puissance of her sex.
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- He will always be a puissance; it remains to be seen in whose hands and for what objects.'
- Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
- Might he not, by the puissance of gold, discover who were his real parents?
- Extract from : « Wood Rangers » by Mayne Reid
- The duke followed with all his puissance, and set on his enimies.
- Extract from : « Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (2 of 9) » by Raphael Holinshed
- Hearing her words, he realized the puissance of all-conquering, maternal love.
- Extract from : « The Devourers » by Annie Vivanti Chartres
- For without loue all the vertue and puissance of man is of no power and force.
- Extract from : « The Palace of Pleasure » by William Painter
- And I shall not fail you, said Sir Dinadan, unto my puissance, upon my life.
- Extract from : « Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) » by Thomas Malory
- There was puissance in her simplicity,—in her ignorance of that crust which he had so widely studied.
- Extract from : « Idolatry » by Julian Hawthorne
- Or le sieur de Monts ayant l'authorit & puissance cy-deuant dicte, & assez bien muny, & accompagn partit de France l'an 1604.
- Extract from : « The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. III: Acadia, 1611-1616 » by Various
- Il a exprimé en même temps l'espoir qu'aucune grande Puissance ne commencerait les hostilités avant l'examen de cette formule.
- Extract from : « Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) » by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
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