pollent
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pollēns, pollentem (“able, being strong; mighty, powerful”), present active participle of polleō (“to be strong”).[1]
Adjective edit
pollent (comparative more pollent, superlative most pollent)
- (literary, rare) Powerful, strong.
- 2019, Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History, Falmouth, Cornwall: Urbanomic Media Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
- Yet, for many of the thinkers explored below, pollent superlation—rather than prudent suspicion—offers the promise of reconciling human experience with the enormities (in both senses of the term) of natural history.
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ “pollent, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Latin edit
Verb edit
pollent