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Puissant vs Virile - What's the difference?

puissant | virile |

As adjectives the difference between puissant and virile

is that puissant is powerful, mighty, having authority while virile is being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.

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...

    Related terms

    * puissance

    Anagrams

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    virile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.

    • Antonyms

    * nonvirile

    Derived terms

    * virility ----