Plenipotentiary

Definitions

A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.

Equivalents

Examples

“None but the like-minded can come⟳ plenipotentiary to our court.”

“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.”

“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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