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单词 all-powerful
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all-powerfuladj.

Brit. /ˌɔːlˈpaʊəf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈˌɔlˈpaʊərfəl/, /ˈˌɑlˈpaʊərfəl/
Forms: see all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. and powerful adj., n., and adv.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: all adv., powerful adj.
Etymology: < all adv. + powerful adj., after post-classical Latin omnipotent-, omnipotēns omnipotent adj. Compare earlier almighty adj.
Having absolute or infinite power; almighty, omnipotent. Also: having unlimited or great authority, force, or influence; extremely strong.In early use as an attribute of God (cf. omnipotent adj. 1).
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > [adjective] > having great or supreme power
prepotent1468
maximious?1567
all-powerful1597
multipotent1609
magnipotent1727
prepotential1888
society > authority > power > [adjective] > all-powerful
almightOE
all-wieldingOE
almightendc1250
almightfulc1300
compotent1391
almightyc1405
almightiful?a1475
cunctipotentc1485
omnipotenta1522
all-commanding1596
all-powerful1597
omnivalent1602
super-omnivalent1602
omniprevalenta1661
unzoned1662
omnivalous1773
pantocratic1949
1597 H. Lok Ecclesiastes 43 For he..is, all-powerfull.
1692 E. Scarisbrick Life Lady Warner (ed. 2) v. i. 294 Hereby to encrease her confidence in his All-Powerful assistance.
a1711 T. Ken Divine Love in Wks. (1838) 275 Let thy all-powerful love abound in my heart.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 139 His all-powerful virtue, and celestial fortune.
1825 Westm. Rev. July 151 The soul of Alfred has transmigrated into that of George the Fourth; all-powerful and active England is the representative of Anglo-Saxony.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 379 Bowed down by fear of the allpowerful Campbells.
1906 Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 2/6 Control has passed into the hands of an all-powerful officialdom.
1939 Burlington Mag. Sept. 124/1 Rogier's all-powerful personality.
1980 J. A. Hostetler Amish Society (ed. 3) i. i. 21 Suspended in a tension-field between obedience to an all-knowing and all-powerful Creator on the one hand and the fear of disobedience on the other.
2005 Observer 6 Nov. i. 16/7 The age of the internet and the all-powerful teen media.

Derivatives

ˌall-ˈpowerfulness n. the fact or quality of being all-powerful; omnipotence.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > [noun] > infinite power
almightinesslOE
almightiheada1425
omnipotencea1460
omnipotencya1525
omnipotency1604
omnivalence1607
all-powerfulness1614
all-potency1642
almightyship1663
omnipotentness1727
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. v. §9. 308 The loue and kindnesse of his all-powerfulnesse.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 56 The all-powerfulness of Aqua-fortis.
1820 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Nov. 434/2 The most exalted ideas of the all-powerfulness of the Author of Nature.
1957 New Biol. 22 57 These disturbing cases, which test to the limit our faith in the all-powerfulness of Natural Selection.
2011 New Republic 17 Feb. 26 James is eloquently skeptical of the all-powerfulness of facts and knowledge.
ˌall-ˈpowerfully adv. with infinite or unlimited power; omnipotently.
ΚΠ
1696 J. Lead Tree of Faith 114 This Word spake all powerfully: Hasten to put on you Flaming Garments.
1865 Basil St. John iv. 35 The Mackenzie clan reigned all-powerfully in the Western Highlands.
1886 R. B. Anderson tr. G. Brandes Eminent Authors 19th Cent. 14 She rules directly, immediately, all-powerfully, and absolutely.
2003 L. E. Goodman Islamic Humanism ii. 91 God acts through us—creating motion, sin, or sickness in us, not in Himself, yet acting all-powerfully nonetheless.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1597
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