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Prowess vs Puissance - What's the difference?

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Prowess is a related term of puissance.


As nouns the difference between prowess and puissance

is that prowess is skillfulness and manual ability; adroitness or dexterity while puissance is power, might or potency.

prowess

English

Noun

  • Skillfulness and manual ability; adroitness or dexterity.
  • Distinguished bravery or courage, especially in battle; heroism

    • References

    * The Oxford Paperback Dictionary fourth edition ISBN 0-19-280012-4

    puissance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Power, might or potency.
  • *, II.12:
    • We easily pronounce puissance , truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive.
  • * 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 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.
  • The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.

    • See also

    * pouvoir * puissant English abstract nouns ----