pollent

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin pollēns, pollentem (“able, being strong; mighty, powerful”), present active participle of polleō (“to be strong”).[1]

Adjective

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pollent (comparative more pollent, superlative most pollent)

  1. (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.
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References

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  1. ^ “pollent, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

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Verb

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pollent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of polleō
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