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Puissant vs Manful - What's the difference?

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Puissant is a related term of manful.


As adjectives the difference between puissant and manful

is that puissant is powerful, mighty, having authority while manful is showing the characteristics considered typical of a man; macho or manly.

puissant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Powerful, mighty, having authority.
  • * 1599 — Shakespeare, Hen V i 2
    • Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, / And with your puissant arm renew their feats.
  • * 1667 — Book I
    • For who can yet believe, though after loss,
    That all these puissant legions, whose exile
    Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,
    Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?
  • *
    • I cried in a loud voice, "Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!"
  • * 1851 ,
    • How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?
  • * 1961 -
    • In fact the titles could be anything-or (with some of the most puissant ) no title at all...

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    manful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing the characteristics considered typical of a man; macho or manly
  • (by extension) Courageous; noble; high-minded.

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