FromMedieval Latinplēnipotentiārius(“having full power”),Late Latinplēnipotēns, fromplēnus(“full”) +potēns(“mighty, powerful”).
plenipotentiary (pluralplenipotentiaries)
- A personinvested with fullpowers, especially as thediplomaticagent of asovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.[from c. 1645]
- 1937,P. G. Wodehouse,'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232.
- 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, aplenipotentiary at one of the better courts.
1985, Anthony Burgess,Kingdom of the Wicked:Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ahplenipotentiary.
person invested with supreme authority
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plenipotentiary (notcomparable)
- Invested with full power.
- Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent
- Unlike most English adjectives, this sometimes appearsafter a noun, particularly in legal titles such asMinister Plenipotentiary.
of or relating to a plenipotentiary
