puissant

[prettygoodword]

puissant - adj., powerful, strong, mighty.


From Old French, ultimately from poeir, to be able, from whence also power. A feudal virtue.

---L.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

There must be a good joke in there along the lines of "without u, he'd just be a pissant ruler...".

[larryhammer]

Obviously, you need to write a book just to include that.

---L.