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plenipotentiary - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

plenipotentiary (plural plenipotentiaries)

  • A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter. [from c. 1645]
    • ✤ None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our court.1
    • ✤ Meeting him in the street and ignoring the foul bowler hat he wore on his walks abroad, you would have put him down as a Bishop in mufti or, at the least, a plenipotentiary at one of the better courts.2
    • ✤ Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary.3

Adjective

plenipotentiary (not comparable)

  • Invested with full power.
    • ✤ Synonyms: plenipotent, plenipotential
    • ✤ Coordinate terms: omnipresent, all-present; omniscient, all-knowing; omnicompetent
    • ✤ Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful
    • ✤ It was written of Henry George Ward, M.P. for Sheffield from 1837 to 1849, that “he was also much occupied with railway enterprise in the days of early speculation.” This suggests a hard-bitten man of commerce, but Ward had served in the Diplomatic Service and he was Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico before retiring in 1827 at the age of 30.4
  • Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent

Etymology

From Medieval Latin plēnipotentiārius (“having full power”), Late Latin plēnipotēns, from plēnus (“full”) +‎ potēns (“mighty, powerful”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃəɹ.i/, /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃi.əɹ.i/
  • (General American) IPA: /plɛn.ɪ.poʊˈtɛn.ʃ(i)əɹ.i/, /plɛn.ɪ.pəˈtɛn.ʃi.ɛɹ.i/
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Footnotes

  1. 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown ‎: ↩

  2. 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, ‘Lord Emsworth and Others’, Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232. ↩

  3. 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked: ↩

  4. 1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 209: ↩

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