The state of being potent

Usage examples of potency.

However, while one focuses the attention on an unchanging object, there is the possibility of dementia setting in if one allows the potency of attentional vividness to wane.

Call Thou to mind the bounty which I bestowed upon Thee when I conversed with Thee in the midmost heart of My Sanctuary and aided Thee through the potency of the Holy Spirit that Thou mightest, as the peerless Mouthpiece of God, proclaim unto men the commandments of God which lie enshrined within the divine Spirit.

Merry stocks her shelves with sprays, toxins, and molecules of fearsome potency, all of them synthesized by evil alchemists and guaranteed to necrose Planet Earth for eternity.

This event impressed the populace, who supposed the accident to be due to an overdaring exercise of the divine potency.

Since vampire blood was supposed to temporarily relieve symptoms of illness and increase sexual potency, kind of like prednisone and Viagra rolled into one, there was a huge black market for genuine, undiluted vampire blood.

I have had some experience with the psychotomimetic drugs and was well aware of their potency.

Touched to tears by the unnamed loss that raged through him, he trembled, his emotion resharpened to unblunted potency, and his grief, too poignant to bear.

The stasis field held the shoppe inviolate, but though he was safe from the Infinite Dark Mass that pressed against its walls, its potency could still be felt: pressing against the field, incredible devouring power exerting unceasing pressure.

But by now the stims, adrenalin-activated, had released their full potency, and Ryne was a wild man.

Princess and Kedrigern supervised his treatment, swabbing his face with healing waters at sunrise and sunset and applying a theriacal salve of great potency four times a day.

Only in the bizarro world of Hollywood can such a harmless little chap as George exude massive sexual potency.

Silva Copperleaf by name, whose charms were of such a strength that their potency lasted not just from year to year, but continued to protect the folk who possessed them for generations.

Amphetamines are broken down chemically into three types: salts of racemic amphetamines, dextroamphetamines, and methamphetamines, which only differ in potencies.

Speed usually sells for about 10 to 25 cents a pill depending on potency, or in nickel bags and spoons of methedrine which comes in a tiny wax paper envelope.

Yet this is given only at the quadrillionth, or fourth degree of potency, and various substances are frequently administered at the decillionth or tenth degree, and occasionally at still higher attenuations with professed medicinal results.