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influential
1. Able to have a powerful effect on people and what they do, or on events.
2. Someone who is of considerable importance or influence.
3. Exerting influence or power by some invisible operation; such as, physical causes on bodies, or as moral causes on the mind.

It is particularly used to express the operation of moral causes.

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