puissance
noun/ˈpwiːsɒ̃s/
/ˈpwɪsəns/
- Puissance[singular] a competition in showjumping to test a horse’s ability to jump high fencesTopics Sports: other sportsc2
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- [uncountable] (literary) great power or influence
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2)): from Old French, ‘power’, from puissant ‘having power’, from Latin posse ‘be able’. Sense 1 dates from the 1950s.
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