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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin