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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley