Vigorous vs Puissant - What's the difference?

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Vigorous is a related term of puissant.

As adjectives the difference between vigorous and puissant

is that vigorous is physically strong and active while puissant is powerful, mighty, having authority.

vigorous

English

Alternative forms

* vigourous

Adjective

(en adjective)

Physically strong and active.

Rapid of growth

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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