Definition of "puissant" [pu•is•sant]

• Powerful, mighty, having authority. (adjective)

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• ""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."
• "Was there nothing that puissant emperor could not do?"
• "He was married to a puissant woman of endemic energy."