All 3 Uses of
puissance
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Let us return to the façade of Notre-Dame, as it still appears to us, when we go piously to admire the grave and puissant cathedral, which inspires terror, so its chronicles assert: ~quoe mole sua terrorem incutit spectantibus~.†
Chpt 1.3.1 *
- Sire, you are an august and, very puissant monarch; have pity on a poor man who is honest, and who would find it more difficult to stir up a revolt than a cake of ice would to give out a spark!†
Chpt 2.10.5
- Guillaume Rym considered it incumbent on him to intervene,— "Master Coppenole, you are speaking to a puissant king."†
Chpt 2.10.5
Definition:
powerful -- especially the power to influence or coerce