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puissances

puissances is the plural of puissance.

Meaning of puissance

Noun

puissance (countable and uncountable, plural puissances)

  1. power, might or potency
    • The Sarazin ſore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his ſword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff: / Each others equall puiſſaunce enuies, / And through their iron ſides with cruelties / Does ſeeke to perce: repining courage yields / No foote to foe.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XVII, pages 23–24
  2. The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
    • It was in Dublin that San Lucas scored his first success in what has become something of a speciality for him, the puissance.1969, G. H. S. Webber, Show Jumping International, London: Evans Brothers; New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, →OCLC, page 126

Noun capitalized: Puissances

Puissances

  1. (plural) plural of Puissance. (Alternative letter-case form of puissances.)

Forms of puissances

alternative formPuissances

Questions about puissances

What is puissances the plural of?
Puissances is the plural of puissance.
What part of speech is puissances?
Puissances is a noun.

Words near puissances in the dictionary

  1. PUIs
  2. puisne
  3. puisnes
  4. puisny
  5. puissance
  6. puissances
  7. puissant
  8. puissantly
  9. puissantness
  10. puit
  11. puits

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