单词 | all-powerful |
释义 | all-powerfuladj. 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). < adj.1597 |
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