potency

CEFRC1

/ˈpəʊtənsi/

noun

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Both vaccines require two doses for full potency.
Would regulating the potency of marijuana create new opportunities for the black market?

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Expired medicine may lose its potency.
Beset on either hand by potencies greater than himself, he becomes the battle-ground of immortals.
I would to heauen I had your potencie, And you were Isabell: should it then be thus? No: I would tell what 'twere to be a Iudge, and what a prisoner.

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I would to heauen I had your potencie, And you were Isabell: should it then be thus? No: I would tell what 'twere to be a Iudge, and what a prisoner.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard,...
Beset on either hand by potencies greater than himself, he becomes the battle-ground of immortals.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. The Orestea: III. Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 206
The doctor is the modern master of the mythological realm, the knower of all the secret ways and words of potency.
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 9
Pliny the Elder states that, to increase sexual potency, the right testis of an ass should be worn in a bracelet.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 49

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Borrowed from Latin potentia. Doublet of Potenza.