Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fullness or completeness of power.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of being plenipotent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
plenipotent .
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Examples
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When the news of the successes in Piedmont reached Paris, public festivals were decreed and celebrated; but the democratic spirit of the directors could brook neither the contemptuous disregard of their plan which Bonaparte had shown, nor his arrogant assumption of diplomatic plenipotence.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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Equally remarkable is the Poet's intellectual plenipotence in so ordering and moving the several characters of a play as that they may best draw out each other by mutual influences, and set off each other by mutual contrasts.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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It does not indeed necessarily follow from his facility and plenipotence of wit in writing, that he could shine at those extempore “flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar.”
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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Man has but to learn Nature's language and obey her voice, and she clothes him with plenipotence.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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Commons, that "their remonstrance was more like a denunciation of war, than an address of dutiful subjects, and that their pretension to inquire into state affairs was a plenipotence to which none of their ancestors, even during the weakest reigns, had ever dared to aspire."
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852
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Equally remarkable is the Poet's intellectual plenipotence in so ordering and moving the several characters of a play as that they may best draw out each other by mutual influences, and set off each other by mutual contrasts.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Man has but to learn Nature's language and obey her voice, and she clothes him with plenipotence.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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It does not indeed necessarily follow from his facility and plenipotence of wit in writing, that he could shine at those extempore "flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar."
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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