Plenipotentiary

Quick meaning: Plenipotentiary is a noun meaning Invested with full power.

Meaning

Invested with full power.

More Meanings

1. Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent
2. A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.

Example Sentences

None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our court.

Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful

Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary.

1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232. Meeting him in the street and ignoring the foul bowler hat he wore on his walks abroad, you would have put him down as a Bishop in mufti or, at the least, a plenipotentiary at one of the better courts.

Word Forms

• plenipotentiaries

Synonyms for plenipotentiary

Depending on context, synonyms include plenipotent, plenipotential, omnicompetent, omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include secretary, commissioner, counsellor, commissar, commissioners, plenipotentiaryship.

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