puissant
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Old French, from Latin posse, "be able", from potis, "able".
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puissant (comparative more puissant, superlative most puissant)
- Powerful, mighty, having authority.
- 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?
- For who can yet believe, though after loss,
- 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...
- 1599 — Shakespeare, Hen V i 2
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powerful, mighty
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puissant
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Declension of puissant
| Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Subject | puissanz | puissante | puissant |
| Oblique | puissant | puissante | puissant | |
| Plural | Subject | puissant | puissantes | puissant |
| Oblique | puissanz | puissantes | puissant |
[edit] French
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From the verb pouvoir, from Latin potēns, potentis.
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puissant m. (f. puissante, m. plural puissants, f. plural puissantes)
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puissant
