puissant

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  1. Powerful; mighty; strong; vigorous; forcible: as, a puissant prince or empire. Which fele letters brought with breffes many Of Anthony hys part, a pusant man tho. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), l. 2683. The flemynges were beyond the ryuer puyssaunt ynough … to kepe the passage. Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., I. 721. I will be puissant, And mighty in my talk to her. B. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 1. Puissant is the Danish king, and strong In all the sinews of approved force. Ford, Honour Triumphant, Monarchs' Meeting. Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India, Eros in the Greek, or Cupid in the Latin heaven. Emerson, Success.

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  • Because he was high and puissant, and you wished to have renown and glory and to be lifted far above the mean things that crawl on the earth. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • Byes wide open, let him draw in through every pore the all-puissant breath of life, see things as they are, squarely face his misfortunes,—and laugh Several months passed. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • But then, after busting out of the underground complex, Kyra, Riddick, and a small group of convicts flee across the plantetary surface, seeking to outrun the sunrise, which on Crematoria brings 700 plus degrees of heat, and.... Well, if not for the puissant wisdom of Multiplexity , I might have been unwarrantedly dismissive when our hero and heroine manage to avoid cremation by hiding behind a rock. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,December2004
  • We must strike these all-puissant malefactors who, with hands full of gold and dripping with blood, are plotting the ruin of the Mountain_--the Fouchers, Talliens, Rovθres, Carriers, Bourdons. —  Dieux ont soif. English
  • Les personnes qui touchent ses reliques ou portent sur elles son nom béni espérent échapper pendant leur vie aux atteintes des démons, de la rage et du tonnerre Aire, diocčse de Fréjus, on invoque aussi sainte Quitčre contre la rage INVOCATION Dieu tout-puissant, qui avez formé le coeur de vos saints avec une admirable bonté, afin qu'ils deviennent pour nous une source de bienfaits et de consolation assistez-nous dans le pressant besoin oů nous nous trouvons et sauvez-nous de la mort, par les pričres at les mérites de saint Hubert de Brétigny, afin que nous puissions vous louer et vous bénir. —  Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
 

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  1. from Middle English puyssant, puysaunt, pusant, from Old French puissant, poissant, French puissant = Italian possente, powerful, from Middle Latin as if *possen(t-)s, for L. poten(t-)s, present participle of posse, be able: see potent.
 

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/ˈpjuɪsənt/
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