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main and might
a. might and main (also occasionally main and might): utmost or greatest possible power or strength.
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OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke iv. 36 Quod est hoc uerbum quia in potestate et uirtute imperat spiritibus inmundis et exuent : þæt is ðis word þætte in mæhte & mægne gehateð gastum unclænum & geongas.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 434 Hwar is nu eower miht & eower mægen becumen.
?a1300 Thrush & Nightingale (Digby) 89 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 104 I take witnesse of sire wawain, þat ihesu crist Ȝaf miȝt and main And strengþe for to fiȝtte.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 218 (MED) Þes were in þisse bataile of mest miȝt & mayn.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 17028 (MED) Suet iesus had sua mikel might and main.
c1410 (c1450) Gamelyn 143 Ne had i hadde mayn and might in myn armes To haue iput hem fro me, he wolde haue do me harmes.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 117 (MED) His myght and His mayn oght Wel to be Praysid.
1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.v I haue myght & mayne ouer countrees fare.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints sig. B2 Those great warriors, which did ouercomme The world with conquest of their might and maine.
1684 P. Ker Flosculum Poeticum 53 If thou resolv'st to come again, Thou must recruit both might, and main: Or else it will be all in vain, To think that thou'lt trapan us.
a1842 W. Maginn Chevy Chase in Miscellanies (1885) I. 266 At last the Douglas and the Percy met, Like two captains of might and main; They swept together, till they both sweat, With swords of fine Milain.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. IV. cclxxix. 118 I'm Shaddad son of A d..Lord of tried might and main.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxiv. 121 Men..who did not regard even the gods, but trusted to their own might and main.
1901 J. M. Bell Poet. Wks. 60 Friends within and foes without Their might and main conjointly blend To reach the same great, glorious end.
1935 G. Jones Four Icelandic Sagas 140 (notes) Many of the Norsemen believed in neither the White Christ nor the Red Thor, but in their own might and main.
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