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 to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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