Obs.–1 [ad. L. valent-, valens, pres. pple. of valēre.] Vigorous, flourishing.
1492. Ryman, Poems, xviii. 2. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr., LXXXIX. 186. A roose, a valent floure, i-wis, Crist made springe of a thorne.
