The potence of personality is certainly incalculable.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Catholic Church, No Dorothy Day] Reference

A quoi bon une potence en or si c'est vous que l'on va pendre ?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference

It's as if C.L. Moore had tried to do a story dealing with Northwest Smith's fear of im-potence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and Other Stories]

The potence of her attraction lay in her not being English in her being, not only Margey, but Cathay, far Cathay.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rude Awakening]

In truth, the concentration of his thought on the fragment of stone had been enough of itself to give a talisman occult potence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

The three brigades on the right flank will be faced to the left and marched forward; the head of this column still forming en potence with the front line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

In the image he believed he somehow possessed the object itself, and so could control it; to the image, therefore, was transferred all the value and potence of the object.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

Corona, Crown, contained in potence the ten numerations, 754-l.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

For this was founded upon his omni potence, and his providence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference

It doubtless is used as a charm of potence by some desert tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

Universe in potence followed the Idea of Creation in Deity, 767-u.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

Idea in Deity was the Universe in potence; the sequence was involved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

Ah! misérable, c'est un cas réservé & un crime qui mérite la potence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One] Reference

Idea, the Universe in potence, the universal succession or things was included.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

Then suddenly it waked, for the moon was sinking, and the charm had lost its potence.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend the Chauffeur] Reference

Logic would no longer be able to stand over us like a hard taskmaster asserting the omni potence of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Faith and Doctrine by the Late Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College] Reference

Could evil have arifen contrary to the will of Omm - potence;, if Omnipotence had willed that It ihould not arife?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fool of Quality; Or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland.] Reference

Loosely, Plantinga describes "maximally excellent" as necessarily including the three omni-'s: benevolence, potence, knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debunking Christianity] Reference

potence, I'm making no claims at present, but I can manage this much, I hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satanic Verses]

"Have you the potence of body for it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

It hath the potence of a charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference

And lose him with their potence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1913-15] Reference

And for thy potence vainly wished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

By potence wrought of mortal visionings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of William Watson] Reference

And who Him love, in potence great or small.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unknown Eros] Reference

A silent harp whose potence none might prove.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference

And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faust] Reference

Such potence own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference

“Too much of potence to the gods you grant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference