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Today's word: puissant
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Princeton's WordNet
puissant(adj)
powerful
Wiktionary
puissant(Adjective)
Powerful, mighty, having authority.
Origin: From puissant, pussant, et al., puissant, poissant, present participle of pooir, ultimately from.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
PUISSANT(adj.)
Powerful; strong; forcible.
The queen is coming with a puissant host. William Shakespeare.
Told the most piteous tale of Lear
That ever ear receiv’d; which in recounting
His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life
Began to crack. William Shakespeare, King Lear.For piety renown’d and puissant deeds. John Milton.
The climate of Syria, the far distance from the strength of Christendom, and the near neighbourhood of those that were most puissant among the Mahometans, caused that famous enterprise, after a long continuance of terrible war, to be quite abandoned. Walter Raleigh, Essays.
Origin: puissant, Fr.
Webster Dictionary
Puissant(adj)
powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire
Origin: [F., originally, a p. pr. formed fr. L. posse to be able: cf. L. potens powerful. See Potent.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Puissant
pū′is-ant, adj. potent or powerful: strong: forcible.—n. Pū′issance, power, strength, force.—adv. Pū′issantly.—n. Pū′issantness. [Fr., (It. possente)—L. potens, powerful, modified by the influence of L. posse, to be able.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of puissant in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of puissant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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