different between lustiness vs puissance
lustiness
English
Etymology
lusty +? -ness
Noun
lustiness (countable and uncountable, plural lustinesses)
- The property of having or experiencing lust, of being lusty.
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puissance
English
Alternative forms
- Puissance (show jumping)
Etymology
From Middle English puissaunce, from Anglo-Norman puissance, pusaunce, and other forms, from Old French puissant (“powerful”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pju??.s(?)ns/, /?pw?-/
- Hyphenation: puis?sance
Noun
puissance (countable and uncountable, plural puissances)
- Power, might or potency.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs. Vol. IV, London: Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-48128-1; republished London: Picador, 2007, ISBN 978-0-330-48127-4, page 66:
- Any impression of mental puissance might have been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review or a linking script […].
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs. Vol. IV, London: Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-48128-1; republished London: Picador, 2007, ISBN 978-0-330-48127-4, page 66:
- (equestrianism) Often Puissance: the high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Middle French puissance, derived from Old French puissant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?i.s??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
puissance f (plural puissances)
- power (physical or figuratively)
- dominion (state within the British Empire)
Derived terms
- en puissance
- puissance mondiale
Related terms
- pouvoir
Preposition
puissance
- (mathematics) to the power of
- Deux puissance quatre égale seize.
Further reading
- “puissance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French puissance.
Noun
puissance f (plural puissances)
- power
Descendants
- French: puissance
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From puissant, pussant.
Noun
puissance f (oblique plural puissances, nominative singular puissance, nominative plural puissances)
- power; ability; authority
- might; strength
Descendants
- English: puissance (borrowed through Anglo-Norman)
- Middle French: puissance
- French: puissance
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