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pollent

pollent adjective: powerful, strong.

Adjective

pollent (comparative more pollent, superlative most pollent)

  1. (literary, rare) Powerful, strong.
    • 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.2019, Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History, Falmouth, Cornwall: Urbanomic Media Ltd, →ISBN, page 7

Forms of pollent

comparativemore pollent
superlativemost pollent

Origin of pollent

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

Questions about pollent

What does pollent mean?
Pollent means powerful, strong.
What part of speech is pollent?
Pollent is an adjective.

Words near pollent in the dictionary

  1. pollenophagous
  2. pollenoses
  3. pollenosis
  4. pollenproof
  5. pollens
  6. pollent
  7. polleny
  8. poller
  9. pollera
  10. polleras
  11. pollercoaster

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