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noun
- A person invested with full power, especially as the agent or ambassador of a sovereign
- 1985: Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome"s ah . " Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
adjective
- invested with full power
- of, or related to a plenipotentiary
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Etymology: Mediíval Latin plenipotentiarius, from Latin plenus "full" + potentia "power".
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