puissance
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Puissance is the power to influence what other people do or believe. A celebrity who is extremely popular with teens has puissance to help end problems like bullying just by talking about it in interviews.
Puissance is a French word that describes being powerful. When you have a strong influence over someone, you have puissance. It's an uncommon but poetic way to describe power, especially the power to convince someone to do something, like an older sibling's puissance. Another meaning of puissance is a show jumping horse's ability to jump large hurdles.
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power to influence or coerce“the puissance of the labor vote”
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type of:
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power, powerfulness
possession of controlling influence
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power, powerfulness
Vocabulary lists containing puissance
King Henry IV worries that his son Hal, who associates with criminals, is not fit to become King of England.
In this fantasy novel, Tristran Thorn ventures into the land of Faerie to find a fallen star for his beloved.
In the second part of M.T. Anderson's duology, Octavian escapes to Boston and gets caught up in the American Revolution.
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