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Meaning of puissance in English
Pronunciation
/ˈpwɪsəns/
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Noun
puissance
Etymology
late Middle English (in puissance (sense 2)): from Old French, ‘power’, from puissant‘having power’ (see puissant). Sense 1 dates from the 1950s
Definitions
1.
power to influence or coerce
Examples
« the puissance of the labor vote »