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  • It means you could potentially be the most puissant High Priestess the vampyres have ever known.†  (source)
  • Most Puissant One.†  (source)
  • Because he was high and puissant, and you wished to have renown and glory and to be lifted far above the mean things that crawl on the earth.†  (source)
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  • Hassop was at ease, relaxed, just a little beglamoured by the idea of intimacy with his puissant chief, just a little intoxicated by the knowledge that his film cannister contained Ben Reich's fate.†  (source)
  • I felt the puissance and evil of their thoughtless, callow maggotry.†  (source)
  • "Yeah, we'll bring the stuff; you bring the puissantness," Shaunee said, giving Damien a smartass look.†  (source)
    puissantness = the quality of being powerful
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • "Mais, assez puissant!" said the other porter sagely.†  (source)
  • How shall a warrior's puissance dare With Bráhman's awful strength compare?†  (source)
  • It was announced in the Winnemac Daily News that Dr. Geake had been called from the chair of otolaryngology to the vice-presidency of the puissant New Idea Medical Instrument and Furniture Company of Jersey City.†  (source)
  • And I shall not fail you, said Sir Dinadan, unto my puissance, upon my life.†  (source)
  • You feel in the atmosphere the same tonic, puissant quality that is in the tilth, the same strength and resoluteness.†  (source)
  • When they arrive before the precipice, There are the shrieks, the plaints, and the laments, There they blaspheme the puissance divine.†  (source)
  • How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?†  (source)
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