potence

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Loosely, Plantinga describes "maximally excellent" as necessarily including the three omni-'s: benevolence, potence, knowledge.

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  1. noun Potency.

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  • Loosely, Plantinga describes "maximally excellent" as necessarily including the three omni-'s: benevolence, potence, knowledge. —  Debunking Christianity
  • Even The Washington Post ran an article, linking it to no other story than - yes, Putin's precious potence in peril, when illustrious Russian —  Vilhelm Konnander's weblog
  • Provigrax has helped a lot of men, including me regain their potence, confidence in sex life and more it has saved lots of marriages. —  RO.RSS
  • Thus I shall venture to use potence, in order to express a specific degree of a power, in imitation of the Algebraists. —  Biographia Literaria
  • Thus I shall venture to use potence, in order to express a specific degree of a power, in imitation of the —  Biographia Literaria
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  1. Also, in some uses, potance; from Old French potence, power, a crutch, French potence, a crutch, gibbet, etc., = Spanish Portuguese potencia = Italian potenza, power, from Latin potentia, power, Middle Latin also a crutch, from poten(t-)s, powerful: see potent.
 

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