puissant
adjective old use uk/ˈpwiː.sɑ̃t / /ˈpjuː.ɪ.sənt/ us/ˈpwiː.sɑ̃t / /ˈpjuː.ɪ.sənt/
有权力的；强有力的，强大的
very strong, powerful, and effective
The king introduced some of his most significant reforms as an advertisement of his own ever more puissant authority. 国王推出了一些最重要的改革措施，以此宣示自己势不可挡的权势。
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- The book was dedicated to: "the most high, puissant, and redoubted prince, Henry VIII, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith".
- Why should there not be intelligent and puissant beings distinct from those perceptible to senses?
- When he died, he left his kingdom to the queen, my mother, who is also a princess, the daughter of another puissant monarch of the sea.
- Milton's notion of England as a "noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep"