None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our court.
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Plenipotentiary
//ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃəɹ.i//
Synonyms for "plenipotentiary" (50 found)
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Related words (25)
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49 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- пълномощен adj (of or relating to a plenipotentiary)
- упълномощен adj (invested with full power)
- пълномощен представител noun (person invested with supreme authority)
- упълномощен noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 全權代表 /全权代表 adj (invested with full power)
- 全權大使 /全权大使 adj (invested with full power)
Czech
2 entries- zplnomocněný adj (invested with full power)
- zplnomocněnec noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Danish
2 entries- befuldmægtiget adj (invested with full power)
- befuldmægtiget noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Dutch
3 entries- gevolmachtigd adj (invested with full power)
- gevolmachtigde noun (person invested with supreme authority)
- plenipotentiaris noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Esperanto
3 entries- plenpova adj (invested with full power)
- plenpova adj (of or relating to a plenipotentiary)
- plenpovulo noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Finnish
3 entries- täysivaltainen adj (invested with full power)
- täysivaltainen adj (of or relating to a plenipotentiary)
- täysivaltainen edustaja noun (person invested with supreme authority)
French
2 entries- plénipotentiaire adj (invested with full power)
- plénipotentiaire noun (person invested with supreme authority)
German
3 entries- bevollmächtigt adj (invested with full power)
- Bevollmächtigter noun (person invested with supreme authority)
- Generalbevollmächtigter noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Icelandic
1 entries- fulltrúi sem hefur fullt umboð noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Indonesian
1 entries- wali noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Italian
2 entries- plenipotenziaria noun (person invested with supreme authority)
- plenipotenziario noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Macedonian
4 entries- ополномо́штен adj (invested with full power)
- полномо́шен adj (invested with full power)
- полномошнички adj (of or relating to a plenipotentiary)
- ополномо́штеник noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دستور noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Polish
4 entries- pełnomocny adj (invested with full power)
- pełnomocny adj (of or relating to a plenipotentiary)
- ambasador noun (person invested with supreme authority)
- pełnomocnik noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Portuguese
2 entries- plenipotenciário adj (invested with full power)
- plenipotenciário noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Romanian
1 entries- plenipotențiar noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Russian
4 entries- полномо́чный adj (invested with full power)
- уполномо́ченный adj (invested with full power)
- полномо́чный представи́тель noun (person invested with supreme authority)
- полпре́д noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Spanish
1 entries- plenipotenciario noun (person invested with supreme authority)
Ukrainian
1 entries- повнова́жний adj (invested with full power)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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, a plenipotentiary at one of the better courts.
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Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary.
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Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful
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