"Puissance" is a word in ENGLISH

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or …

Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering …

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, …

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, …

Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.

Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.

Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.

Strength; might; secret power.

To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, …

To deprive of power; to divest of strength.

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more …

Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of …

To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral …

Force; strength; power.

The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, …

Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.

Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- …

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity …

Power dynamically considered, that is, ln motion or in action; constraining power, compulsion; strength directed to an end. Usually the …

To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.