puissant

puissant

puissant (comparative more puissant, superlative most puissant)

1. Powerful, mighty, having authority.
   • 1599 — Shakespeare, Hen V i 2

     Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, / And with your puissant arm renew their feats.

   • 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I

     For who can yet believe, though after loss,
     That all these puissant legions, whose exile
     Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,
     Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?

   • 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels Part I, ch. v

     I cried in a loud voice, ""Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!""

   • 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?

   • 1961 - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

     In fact the titles could be anything-or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all...

forte

possente

Altri significati:

Powerful, mighty, having authority.

powerful, mighty

Traduzione 'veloce'

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