puissance
- n power to influence or coerce
the puissance of the labor vote
- Carter redeems a promise but the memos leakThe maritime unions are smalla total membership of 76,000but their political puissance rivals the billow of a.
- That inner reality is explored with remarkable perception and puissance in Diary of a Schiiophrenic Girl.
- Laurence Olivier invaded the 20th century stage and film with his puissance and his presence.