puissance

noun2

1. •
   power, might or potency

   • We easily pronounce puissance, truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive. — 1603
2. •
   The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.

   • It was in Dublin that San Lucas scored his first success in what has become something of a speciality for him, the puissance. — 1969