Meaning of Puissance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of puissance.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
2. power, might or potency
   countable, uncountable
3. The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“We easily pronounce puissance, truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter⟳, but that thing we neither see⟳ nor conceive.”

“After these things above said, the Priest exorcised the salt, saying thus: I conjure thee, creature of salt; that is to say⟳, I conjure in thee the puissance of the Devil in Hell, in the name⟳ of God Father omnipotent, and in the charity of our Lord Jesu Christ, and in the virtue of the Holy Ghost […]”

“Any impression of mental puissance might have⟳ been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review⟳ or a linking script […].”

“It was in Dublin that San Lucas scored his first success in what has become⟳ something of a speciality for him, the puissance.”

“Pat [Moss] then went to Oxford to qualify⟳ for the Horse of the Year Show⟳, and Danny was fourth in the Puissance, an event with very high jumps.”

“In a study⟳ of horses during a puissance competition that started at a height of 1.80 m and ended in the last⟳ round at 2.27 m, success was significantly positively correlated with the following variables at lift-off: vertical velocity of CM, height of CM, distance of CM from the fence; and was significantly negatively correlated with the distance of the leading hind limb to the CM.”

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