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Noun: puissance  pyoo-i-sun(t)s or pwi-sun(t)s
  1. High-jump competition in the equestrian sport of show jumping including jumps over a number of single large obstacles
     
  2. [archaic] Power to influence or coerce
    "the puissance of the labour vote"

Derived forms: puissances

Type of: power, powerfulness

Encyclopedia: Puissance

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