What's the difference between pissant and puissant?

Pissant


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Listen here you pooncy, pasty faced person from some pissant place that no one cares about, half my electorate are probably in de facto relationships and they are happy, normal living people who do their very best for their families and their communities.
  • (2) The Speaker of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly has objected to comments by the federal families minister, Kevin Andrews, that de facto couples should get married, labelling him a “pooncy, pasty faced person from some pissant place that no one cares about”.

Puissant


Definition:

  • (a.) Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like current so-called clashes of civilisation and religions, the mere technical detail that the very Catholic "the most puissant prince, and most Christian king of France and Navarre," was the ally of protestant Swedish kingdom against the Holy Roman Hapsburgs.

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