Puissance vs Authority - What's the difference?
puissance | authority | Related terms |
Power, might or potency.
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The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
(label) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
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(label) Persons in command; specifically, government.
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Puissance is a related term of authority.
As nouns the difference between puissance and authority
is that puissance is power, might or potency while authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders.puissance
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Noun
(-)- We easily pronounce puissance , truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive.
- 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.
See also
* pouvoir * puissant English abstract nouns ----authority
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Alternative forms
* authourity (obsolete)Noun
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
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- To punish me for my contempt of authority', Fate has made me an ' authority myself.