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- noun Plural form of
potence .
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Examples
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All things are Christ's; all dominions, dignities, potences; it is especially meet that we say, to-day, all institutions.
The History of Dartmouth College Baxter Perry Smith 1856
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Its power is to put the Universe in movement; and the Knights who shall be fortunate enough to possess it, with weight and measure, shall have at their disposition all the potences that inhabit it, the Elements, and the cognizance of all the virtues and sciences that man is capable of knowing.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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High school Do you've some mathematical problems with response (terms, potences edc.)
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Dep6fuit potences de fe - de, * & exaftavit humiles.
Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777
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The quantum mechanics is also an incomplete field of study and that hasn’t prevented the world potences (specially the USA) make atomic bombs.
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Thank you for General Braitwitz's deux potences. (
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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