plenipotent
adj/pliːˈnɪpətənt/
Etymology From Latin plenus (“full”) + potens, potentis (“potent”).
1
Having full power.
- Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful
- 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.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:
- Derived terms
- plenipotence