imponent
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He believes that Pope Gregory IX. is the intellectual originator, as well as the legislative imponent, of the terrific system which ripened gradually and experimentally in his pontificate.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
But the idea of law implies an intelligent, authoritative imponent of some kind.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
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