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語源

From Medieval Latin plēnipotentiārius (“having full power”), Late Latin plēnipotēns, from plēnus (“full”) +‎ potēns (“mighty, powerful”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃəɹ.i/, /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃi.əɹ.i/
• (General American) IPA: /plɛn.ɪ.poʊˈtɛn.ʃ(i)əɹ.i/, /plɛn.ɪ.pəˈtɛn.ʃi.ɛɹ.i/

名詞

plenipotentiary (plural plenipotentiaries)

1. A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter. [from c. 1645]
   • 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown‎:

     None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our court.

   • 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232.

     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.

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plenipotentiary.

派生語

形容詞

plenipotentiary (not comparable)

1. Invested with full power.

   Synonyms: plenipotent, plenipotential

   Coordinate terms: omnipresent, all-present; omniscient, all-knowing; omnicompetent

   Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful

   • 1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 209:

     It was written of Henry George Ward, M.P. for Sheffield from 1837 to 1849, that "he was also much occupied with railway enterprise in the days of early speculation." This suggests a hard-bitten man of commerce, but Ward had served in the Diplomatic Service and he was Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico before retiring in 1827 at the age of 30.

2. Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent

使用する際の注意点

• Unlike most English adjectives, this sometimes appears after a noun, particularly in legal titles such as Minister Plenipotentiary.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plenipotentiary.

同意語

• plenipotent