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[ UK /pjˈuːɪsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. powerful

How To Use puissant In A Sentence

  • the purple patches," and unattracted, perhaps demagnetized, by a personality once fascinating and always "puissant," to appreciate the actual worth and magnitude of the poem. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
  • Et par l'ordre et commandement de très-haut, très-puissant et mon très-redouté seigneur, Philippe, par la grace de Dieu, duc de Bourgogne, de The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
  • Four motives appear to me to have been puissant in indisposing The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
  • Faith is a puissant concept, yet it is problematic in isolation.
  • To the New Blood: [aka: puissant snots, kids, wood gatherers … .. fresh meat.] Why We Finally Stop Hunting
  • He felt genuine awe at this superhuman man, at once so puissant, so self-possessed, so monomaniac in his demeanour.
  • DISGRACE, _f. _, perte des bonnes grâces d'une personne puissante; infortune, malheur. French Conversation and Composition
  • The illustrious Narayana, otherwise called Hari, when he resolved upon Creation, thought of a Being who would be puissant enough to create the universe. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
  • Des civils massacrés pratiquement sous les yeux de Casques bleus impuissants ou indifférents: Kiwanja sera-t-il un Srebrenica congolais? In the Congo, Fighting Continues
  • She was born among the nobles of the senators of Rome, and of the lineage of the noble Gregois, rich of good and puissant of seignory at The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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