Potent
Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
A prince; a potentate.
A staff or crutch.
One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
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Potent Quotations
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Eric Hoffer
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Herman Melville
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward
Potent Translations
potent in German is Potente, stark
potent in Italian is valido
potent in Spanish is potente
potent in Swedish is kraftig, stark
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