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plenipotent
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
plenipotent (comparative more plenipotent, superlative most plenipotent)
- Having full power.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book CCLXX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 404:
- My Substitutes I send ye, and Create
Plenipotent on Earth, of matchless might
Issuing from mee: on your joynt vigor now
My hold of this new Kingdom all depends,
Through Sin to Death expos’d by my exploit.
Derived terms
References
- “plenipotent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin plēnipotens.
Pronunciation
Noun
plenipotent m pers (female equivalent plenipotentka)
- (literary) agent, attorney-in-fact (agent of the person giving him or her the power of attorney (for a specific purpose or for general purposes) to act on his or her behalf)
- Synonym: pełnomocnik
Declension
Declension of plenipotent
Derived terms
nouns
verbs
- plenipotentować impf
Related terms
adjectives
- plenipotencyjny
Further reading
- plenipotent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- plenipotent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
plenipotent m or n (feminine singular plenipotentă, masculine plural plenipotenți, feminine and neuter plural plenipotente)
Declension
Noun
plenipotent m (plural plenipotenți)
Declension
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