Associations to the word «Puissance»

Wiktionary

PUISSANCE, noun. Power, might or potency.
PUISSANCE, noun. The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.

Dictionary definition

PUISSANCE, noun. Power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope