Definitions for puissance

puissance pu·is·sance

Spelling: [pyoo-uh-suh ns, pyoo-is- Puissance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 483 anagrams from letters in puissance (aceinpssu).

Definitions for puissance

noun

  1. power, might, or force.

Origin of puissance

1375-1425; late Middle English Middle French, equivalent to puiss(ant) puissant + -ance -ance

Examples for puissance

And I shall not fail you, said Sir Dinadan, unto my puissance, upon my life.

Never before had she felt so profoundly the puissance of her sex.

Il a exprimé en même temps l'espoir qu'aucune grande puissance ne commencerait les hostilités avant l'examen de cette formule.

The duke followed with all his puissance, and set on his enimies.

Or le sieur de Monts ayant l'authorit & puissance cy-deuant dicte, & assez bien muny, & accompagn partit de France l'an 1604.

For without loue all the vertue and puissance of man is of no power and force.

He will always be a puissance; it remains to be seen in whose hands and for what objects.'

Might he not, by the puissance of gold, discover who were his real parents?

Hearing her words, he realized the puissance of all-conquering, maternal love.

There was puissance in her simplicity,—in her ignorance of that crust which he had so widely studied.

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