Puissance

Definition: Puissance

Puissance

Noun

1. Power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "puissance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Puissance \Pu"is*sance\, noun. [French expression, from puissant. See Puissant, and compare to Potency, Potance, Potence.]. (Websters 1913)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Power

Noun: power; potency, potentiality; jiva; puissance, might, force, energy; dint; right hand, right arm;

Crosswords: Puissance

French (cogency, force, forcefulness, forcing, might, potency, power, puissance, realm, state, stoutness, strength, volume).

Puissance du hasard (1921)

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Books

• Jung :la puissance de l'illusion (reference)

• La Chine, Une Puissance Encerclee? (reference)

• La civilisation de puissance (reference)

• La puissance des mouches : roman (reference)

• La puissance et les rêves (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Puissance 13+2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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La puissance militaire de la France. Credit: Library of Congress.

La puissance militaire de la France. Credit: Library of Congress.

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They thus directed, we will follow In the main battle, whose puissance on either side Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.

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Albanian

forcë (coercion, effect, emphasis, energy, force, intensity, might, mightiness, muscle, nerve, pith, potency, power, strain, strength, vigor, vigour, violence). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تأثير (action, affection, effect, effectiveness, hold, impact, impress, leverage, lobbying, prestige, pull, tutelage, virtue), ‏الدول الكبري, ‏إقتدار, ‏بأس (hardihood, manhood, pith, pizzazz, sinew, strength, sturdiness). (various references)

French

puissance (capacity purchased). (various references)

German

Kraft (ability, agency, by, by dint of, by means of, by use of, by virtue of, dint, employee, energy, faculty, force, forth, fortitude, heft, help, impetus, might, on, power, strength, through, verdure, vigor, vigour, with, worker). (various references)

Greek 

δύναμη (brawn, faculty, force, manpower, might, pithiness, potency, power, robustness, strength, sturdiness, thews, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim, virtue). (various references)

Italian

potenza (input, might, potency, power, strengh, strength), vigore (effectiveness, flush, force, forcefulness, greenness, manhood, pep, punch, sap, soundness, spirit, stamina, strength, strenuousness, sturdiness, trenchancy, verve, vigor, vigour), forza (brunt, c'mon, current, dint, force, forcefulness, kick, might, muscle, nerve, potency, power, sinews, spirit, strengh, strenght, strength, vigour, vim). (various references)

Manx

pooar (faculty, influence, power, province, warrant). (various references)

Pig Latin

uissancepay

Portuguese

poder (ability, action, afford, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, be able to, can, energy, force, grasp, hand, hold, inning, leverage, may, might, potency, power, reach, rod, ruling, to be able). (various references)

Romanian

putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, pith, potency, power, punch, reign, resistance, right, rulership, sap, stamina, steam, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim). (various references)

Russian 

мощь (capacity, horsepower, power), могущество (might, potency, power). (various references)

Spanish

poder (ability, ascendancy, authority, be able, be able to, can, capability, capacity, dominion, ennoblement, know how, may, might, mightiness, power, power of attorney, sway, to be able, warrant). (various references)

Ukrainian

могутність (arm, mightiness, potence, potency, power). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "puissance": puissances. (additional references)

Words ending with "puissance": impuissance. (additional references)

Words containing "puissance": impuissances. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Puissance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pisante. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: auspices, inscapes, issuance.

-2 letters: auspice, caseins, incases, incuses, inscape, pansies, puisnes, sapiens, supines, uncases, usances.

-3 letters: acinus, anises, anuses, apices, apneic, aspens, aspics, casein, causes, census, cuisse, cuspis, incase, incuse, panics, pauses, pecans, puisne, saices, sanies, sansei, sauces, scapes, scaups, scenas, sepias, sneaps, snipes, spaces, speans, spicae, spicas, spices, spines, supine, uncaps, uncase.

+1 letter: puissances.

+2 letters: impuissance, paunchiness, suppliances.

+3 letters: captiousness, impuissances, postulancies, spaciousness, speculations.

+4 letters: capaciousness, epicureanisms, nucleocapsids, packinghouses, paunchinesses, rapaciousness, stupefactions, superagencies, supercabinets.

+5 letters: auspiciousness, capriciousness, captiousnesses, ceruloplasmins, conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, encapsulations, picornaviruses, precariousness, pugnaciousness, republicanisms, spaciousnesses, supercriminals, supermasculine, supersonically.