Word For The Day - PUISSANT

www.dictionary.com ^ | 04-21-2017 | Red Badger

[Red Badger]

................It’s FRIDAY!...................

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”.

PUISSANT

puis·sant

[pyoo-uh-suh nt, pyoo-is-uh nt, pwis-uh nt]

adjective - literary

: having puissance : powerful

Origin:

Puissant has some powerful ties to some more commonplace English words. Although "puissant" has a considerably fancier feel than "power" and "potent," all three words share the same Latin ancestor: posse, a verb meaning "to be able." "Power" came to us by way of Anglo-French poer, which is itself thought to have come from "potēre," a Vulgar Latin alteration of "posse." "Potent" came from "potent-, potens," a present participle of "posse." From "poer" came the adjective pussant, meaning "able" or "powerful" in Anglo-French, and English speakers borrowed that to form "puissant" in the 15th century.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day........

[Honorary Serb]

BUMP!!!!

[secret garden]

The puissant Nashville Predators, underdogs, underrated, but never underrepresented at the arena, just swept the Blackhawks last night. And they said it couldn't be done.

[left that other site]

LOL! Great word.

The Twentieth Century had a particular penchant for dystopian, post-apocalyptic movies. A common theme, of the puissant strongman in uniform bringing people into order, was examplified in the excruciatingly long Kevin Kostner epic “THE POSTMAN”.

[Red Badger]

...excruciatingly long Kevin Kostner epic...

That pretty much describes All Kevin Kostner's movies.............A+++!...........

[dblshot]

I am tired of hearing liberal media piss ants
Declare Trump an illegitimate president
What they call news
Goes against my views
I think the Donald is tout puissant

[dblshot]

Or Mike Hunt

[Tucker39]

Actually, in high school, one of my classmates was named James Dick. (Lucky his name wasn’t Randy. Look it up).

[Red Badger]

Excellent! A+++!....................

[Red Badger]

Has anybody seen him lately?.................B^)

[Red Badger]

Patsy Cline’s son?....................

[Red Badger]

A++!....................

[Louis Foxwell]

WELCOME!!
Raising the level,
A puissant enterprise,
Regaled by some,
Preferred by many,
Your entry into this format
Is entirely praise-worthy.

[NorthMountain]

Grande Puissance

[Red Badger]

A+++!..............

[Red Badger]

A++!.................Mucho Grande!................

[NorthMountain]

Mucho Grande

Not to be confused with Macho Grand, which only the most puissant of men could have survived.

[Red Badger]

I don’t want to talk about Macho Grande..............It’s tooooo painful.......

[SFConservative]

Word for the day haiku:

Trump’s puissant moves
show that MAGA’s not a ruse,
and cause Dems to lose.

[Red Badger]

A rhyming haiku! Excellent! A++++!.................

[tioga]

Our puissant president walks tall
A man not a pissant at all.
Carries a big stick
With Pence his sidekick
Giving the swamp an overhaul.