Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person invested with or assuming power; one having authority or influence.
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Examples
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Meanwhile, the American pleni-potentiary finds himself increasingly sniped at from all sides.
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Before Clive made his accustomed visit to his friends at the hotel opposite, the last great potentiary had arrived who was to take part in the family Congress of Baden.
The Newcomes 2006
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Perhaps a plesant automobile ride through the beautiful streets of Sarjevo would be plenty potentiary for the ideas of the mind regarding such issues.
seriously folks... daveberta 2005
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A pledge was likewise exchanged between the estates and the pleni - potentiary, that neither party should enter into any treaty with the
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 18: 1572 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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A pledge was likewise exchanged between the estates and the pleni-potentiary, that neither party should enter into any treaty with the King, except by full consent and co-operation of the other.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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A pledge was likewise exchanged between the estates and the pleni-potentiary, that neither party should enter into any treaty with the King, except by full consent and co-operation of the other.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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A pledge was likewise exchanged between the estates and the pleni-potentiary, that neither party should enter into any treaty with the King, except by full consent and co-operation of the other.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Before Clive made his accustomed visit to his friends at the hotel opposite, the last great potentiary had arrived who was to take part in the family Congress of Baden.
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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He is sufficiently authorized, as pleni-potentiary, to settle the great concerns that lie between God and man, to take up the controversy which would inevitably have been our ruin, and to establish the correspondence that was necessary to our happiness; see Acts ii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Guftavus refolved, neverthelefs, to take pot-luck, and went with the PJeni - potentiary to the palace.
Travels into Norway, Denmark, and Russia, in the years 1788, 1789, 1790, and 1791 1792
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