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Puissant vs Strapping - What's the difference?

puissant | strapping | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between puissant and strapping

is that puissant is powerful, mighty, having authority while strapping is of a young woman full of vigor; lusty.

As a verb strapping is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun strapping is

adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.

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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    strapping

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of a young woman full of vigor; lusty.
  • Of a person of either sex; Having a sturdy muscular physique; robust.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But while the two strapping front men battered Foster, they could not better him, and in the absence of tangible reward for his creative efforts, Pennant almost took matters into his own hands, curling a low free-kick inches wide of Foster's left-hand upright.}}

    Noun

  • Adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.
  • A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.
  • A beating with a strap.
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