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Thread #43354 Message #633126
Posted By: GUEST,Desdemona
22-Jan-02 - 01:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: New word for today: puissant
Subject: RE: BS: New word for today: puissant
puissant [pjusnt] adj. Archaic or poetic. powerful. [from Old French, ultimately from Latin potens mighty, from posse to have power]