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plural plenipotentiaries
A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter. quotations examples
None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our court.
1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown
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.
1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232.
Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary.
1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
not comparable
Invested with full power. examples
Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent examples