powerful; forceful; strong, mighty
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Puissant Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutPowerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.
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puissant
\pu"is*sant\ (?), a. [f., originally, a p. pr. formed fr. l. posse to be able: cf. l. potens powerful. see potent.] powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire. " puissant deeds." of puissant nations which the world possessed. and worldlings in it are less merciful, and more puissant. browning.
Possessing strength.
having puissance
eg:If we are to believe that country's literary pundits,
"irreparable damage to a great British institution" may
soon be done by an invading army more puissant than
Hannibal's or Alexander's, an army marching out of the
creative writing schools of American universities, leaving
Will Shakespeare's sceptred isle "smothered amid a
landslide of books from the US".
(Jonathan Yardley, "Bring on the Yanks," The Guardian,
June 5, 2002)
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eg:If we are to believe that country's literary pundits,
"irreparable damage to a great British institution" may
soon be done by an invading army more puissant than
Hannibal's or Alexander's, an army marching out of the
creative writing schools of American universities, leaving
Will Shakespeare's sceptred isle "smothered amid a
landslide of books from the US".
(Jonathan Yardley, "Bring on the Yanks," The Guardian,
June 5, 2002)
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Adjective
1. powerful
(similar) powerful
(classification) archaism, archaicism
