Puissance Definition

pwĭsəns, pyo͝oĭ-səns, pyo͝o-ĭsəns
noun
Power; might.
American Heritage
The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Puissance

  • Middle English from Old French from poissant powerful present participle of pooir to be able power

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman pussance, pusaunce et al., from puissant (“powerful").

    From Wiktionary

Puissance Sentence Examples

  • The only work he published was his Reflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres a developper cette puissance (Paris, 1824).

  • C. Loyseau, in his Traite des seigneuries (3rd ed., 1610, p. 14), explains that there are two kinds of public seigneuries, that is, sovereign seigneurs, possessing summum imperium, and suzerains, " Les suzeraines sont celles qui ont puissance superieure mais non supreme."

  • His attitude towards Napoleon was not lacking in independence, but in this controversy with the pope, the emperor was able again to secure from him the learned treatise Sur la puissance temporelie du Pape (1809).

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Words Starting With

PPUPUI

Words Ending With

ECENCE

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Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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