Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive of potency or power.

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  • His proposition that none but God can forgive sins does not depotentiate the idea of the Church; but secures both her proper religious significance and the full sense of her dispensations of grace: it limits her powers and _extent_ in favour of her _content_.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

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