puissant

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 Related terms 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Adjective 2.2.1 Related terms

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From Latin posse, "be able" < potis, "able".

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puissant (comparative more puissant, superlative most puissant)

1. Powerful, mighty, having authority.

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• 1599 — Shakespeare, Hen V i 2

  Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, / And with your puissant arm renew their feats.

• 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I

  For who can yet believe, though after loss,

  That all these puissant legions, whose exile

  Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,

  Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?

• 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels Part I, ch. v

  I cried in a loud voice, "Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!"

• 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick

  How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?

• 1961 - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  In fact the titles could be anything-or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all...

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• puissance

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puissant m. (f. puissante, m. plural puissants, f. plural puissantes)

1. Powerful, mighty

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• pouvoir
• puissance