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PLENARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plenary mean?
• PLENARY (adjective)
The adjective PLENARY has 1 sense:
1. full in all respects
Familiarity information: PLENARY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full in all respects
Context example:
a diplomat with plenary powers
Similar:
comprehensive (including all or everything)
Derivation:
plenum (a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present)
Context examples
His chamberlain and cardinals came forth, as I remember, to ask whether we would take seven thousand crowns with his blessing and a plenary absolution, or the ten thousand with his solemn ban by bell, book and candle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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