Puissant

/ˈpwɪs(ə)nt/ · adjective

Meaning

(archaic or literary) Powerful, mighty, having authority..

Example Sentences

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

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?

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

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

‘O noble breast and all-puissant arms, Am I the cause, I the poor cause that men Reproach you, saying all your force is gone?

The "electrics" are at their most puissant where steam locomotives nowadays seem at their weakest, in starting away.

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

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• more puissant
• most puissant

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