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potence
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun potence has 1 sense
- potence(n = noun.state) potency - the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse; Array is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
Antonym: impotence
CIDE DICTIONARY
potence, n. [F., fr. LL. potentia staff, crutch, L., might, power. See Potency.].
Potency; capacity. Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
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