Hypertext Webster Gateway: "puissance"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Puissance \Pu"is*sance\, n. [F., fr. puissant. See {Puissant},
and cf. {Potency}, {Potance}, {Potence}.]
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

puissance
n : power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor
vote"

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