omnipotencen.

Brit.

/ɒmˈnɪpət(ə)ns/, U.S.

/ɑmˈnɪpədəns/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s omnipotens, 1500s– omnipotence.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French omnipotence; Latin omnipotentia.

Etymology: < Middle French, French omnipotence the all-powerfulness of God (c1380), the all-powerfulness of a person (1588) and its etymon post-classical Latin omnipotentia God as embodying the quality of all-powerfulness (Vetus Latina), the concept of all-powerfulness (4th cent.) < classical Latin omnipotent- , omnipotēns omnipotent adj. + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ence suffix. Compare earlier omnipotent adj. and later omnipotency n. Compare Italian onnipotenza (1332; 1304 as onnipotenzia), Spanish omnipotentia (1499), Portuguese omnipotência (16th cent.).

a. As an abstract concept: all-powerfulness, almightiness. Also: a force, person, or being representing or embodying this quality; spec. (with capital initial) God. Now chiefly literary and poetic.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > power > [noun] > infinite power

almightinesslOE

almightiheada1425

omnipotencea1460

omnipotencya1525

omnipotency1604

omnivalence1607

all-powerfulness1614

all-potency1642

almightyship1663

omnipotentness1727

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 73 (MED) Omnipotens, this is his champioun; God loueth this, his throne & sapience Is sette heron, justice to dispence.

1557 M. Huggarde Another Collect for Clergie l. 1, in Newe ABC Omnipotens and vndeuided trinitie..al honour be to thee.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E4 Tossing vp A gratefull spirit to omnipotence.

a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 216 Omnipotence may be mastered, and a happy victory may be gained over Invincibility it self.

1680 E. Settle Female Prelate v. 64 Oh pray to Heav'n, and..do not tax the great Omnipotence Of ought unjust.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 78 And will Omnipotence neglect to save The suffering virtue of the wise and brave?

1762 S. Scott Hist. Mrs. Selvyn 198 Where can reason say immortality shall stop? We must allow that Omnipotence may bestow it on such ranks of being as he pleases.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon II. iv. 106 [He] whose wealth is literally exhaustless and infinite..has as few temptations to obliquity as omnipotence itself.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xciii. 49 Opinion an omnipotence,—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents.

1827 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 117 49 That harmony which, even in the deepest recesses of the ocean, pervades the works of Omnipotence.

1885 Cent. Mag. May 59/1 There were people like that, fresh from the hand of Omnipotence.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxxiv. 439 He remembered how passionately he had prayed for the miracle which his uncle had assured him was possible to omnipotence.

1938 D. Gascoyne Sel. Poems (1994) 68 He flung The last curse of regret against Omnipotence. And the lightning struck his face.

b. As an attribute of God, or of a person: the fact or quality of having unlimited or infinite power. Also: the fact or quality of having great power or (occasionally) strength.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > power or omnipotence

mighteOE

craftOE

all-mightOE

omnipotencec1475

ordinate powerc1475

omnipotencya1500

all-powera1681

omnipotentness1727

c1475 Mankind (1969) 461 (MED) We intende to gather mony, yf yt plesse yowr neclygence, For a man wyth a hede þat [ys] of grett omnipotens.

1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta 3rd Chorus in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Rii^v Who thinks that Ioue the maker of vs al,..Hath not in him omnipotence also To guide and gouerne all things here below?

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. A3 O what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honor, of omnipotence Is promised to the studious Artizan?

1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth ii. 186 Thou sure woldst blush, if thou hadst but one eie, To stand on tearmes with mine omnipotence.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 187 (margin) The Right of Gods Soveraignty is derived from his Omnipotence.

1675 T. Otway Alcibiades iv. i. 47 If so ye Gods ye have such precepts giv'n, That an example would confound your Heav'n, You duties beyond your own omnipotence enjoyn.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 56 The Omnipotence of an Ordinance of Parliament, confirm'd all that was this way done.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator III. 52 For Heav'n's unfathom'd Power what Man can sound, Or put to his Omnipotence a Bound?

1791 M. De Fleury Divine Poems & Ess. 48 Jesus, my God, I trust thy power To make me more than conqu'ror; On thine omnipotence depend, My glorious, all-sufficient friend.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 164 Nations have lost their old omnipotence.

1889 Daily News 3 Apr. 4/8 The omnipotence of Parliament, which means its supremacy over the law.

1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 218 Omnipotence is simply the power of fulfilling the absolute law of perfection as it is realised.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxiv. 358 Could he stand and see his father slowly dissolve and disappear..without once relenting before the omnipotence of death.

1955 Sci. Amer. 68/2 For many patients the notion that the doctor lacks omniscience or omnipotence in his domain is extremely disturbing.

1989 Independent 16 Mar. 26/1 Infantile aggression and feelings of omnipotence..can take possession of a man behind a steering wheel.

2000 M. Ruthven Islam in World (ed. 2) iv. 149 For the Hanbalis..the idea that God was bound to reward the good compromised his omnipotence.

2. Psychoanalysis. The belief that all one's desires will be fulfilled, or that a certain outcome or object can be attained merely by wishing for it.Originally in omnipotence of thought n. [after German Allmacht der Gedanken (Freud 1913, in Imago 2 10); compare earlier Allmacht seiner Gedanken und Gefühle (Freud 1909, in Jahrb. f. Psychoanalyt. u. Psychopathol. Forschungen 1 406)] the belief that one's own thoughts or wishes are omnipotent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delusion > types of delusion

lycanthropy1584

cynanthropy1594

hob-thrush1658

wolf-madness1663

syphilomania1815

hippanthropy1847

zoanthropy1856

boanthropy1864

megalomania1885

plutomania1890

uranomania1890

micromania1892

delusions of grandeur1909

omnipotence1916

nihilism1927

apophenia1959

apophany1960

sundowner1974

sundowning1978

1916 B. M. Hinkle tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. of Unconsciousness viii. 506 The symptom described by Freud, as the ‘omnipotence of thought’ in Compulsion Neuroses..corresponds to the identification with God of the paranoic.

1918 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Totem & Taboo iii. 144 The omnipotence of thought, the over-estimation of psychic forces as opposed to reality, proves to be of unlimited effect in the neurotic's affective life and all that emanates from it.

1952 W. R. D. Fairburn Psychoanal. Stud. (1981) i. 6 The attitude of omnipotence may be conscious or unconscious in any degree.

1982 E. O'Shaughnessy in E. Bott Spillius M. Klein Today (1988) II. ii. iii. 149 The moment a patient expresses himself in words he is restricting his omnipotence—words rest on a recognition of a gap between impulse and fulfilment.

2000 S. G. Shoham Personality & Deviance i. 24 When the depriving object is destroyed, the narcissistic mouth-ego reigns supreme, and its omnipotence is regained.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	omnipotence
释义	omnipotencen. Brit. /ɒmˈnɪpət(ə)ns/, U.S. /ɑmˈnɪpədəns/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s omnipotens, 1500s– omnipotence. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French omnipotence; Latin omnipotentia. Etymology: < Middle French, French omnipotence the all-powerfulness of God (c1380), the all-powerfulness of a person (1588) and its etymon post-classical Latin omnipotentia God as embodying the quality of all-powerfulness (Vetus Latina), the concept of all-powerfulness (4th cent.) < classical Latin omnipotent- , omnipotēns omnipotent adj. + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ence suffix. Compare earlier omnipotent adj. and later omnipotency n. Compare Italian onnipotenza (1332; 1304 as onnipotenzia), Spanish omnipotentia (1499), Portuguese omnipotência (16th cent.). 1. a. As an abstract concept: all-powerfulness, almightiness. Also: a force, person, or being representing or embodying this quality; spec. (with capital initial) God. Now chiefly literary and poetic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [noun] > infinite power almightinesslOE almightiheada1425 omnipotencea1460 omnipotencya1525 omnipotency1604 omnivalence1607 all-powerfulness1614 all-potency1642 almightyship1663 omnipotentness1727 a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 73 (MED) Omnipotens, this is his champioun; God loueth this, his throne & sapience Is sette heron, justice to dispence. 1557 M. Huggarde Another Collect for Clergie l. 1, in Newe ABC Omnipotens and vndeuided trinitie..al honour be to thee. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E4 Tossing vp A gratefull spirit to omnipotence. a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 216 Omnipotence may be mastered, and a happy victory may be gained over Invincibility it self. 1680 E. Settle Female Prelate v. 64 Oh pray to Heav'n, and..do not tax the great Omnipotence Of ought unjust. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 78 And will Omnipotence neglect to save The suffering virtue of the wise and brave? 1762 S. Scott Hist. Mrs. Selvyn 198 Where can reason say immortality shall stop? We must allow that Omnipotence may bestow it on such ranks of being as he pleases. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon II. iv. 106 [He] whose wealth is literally exhaustless and infinite..has as few temptations to obliquity as omnipotence itself. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xciii. 49 Opinion an omnipotence,—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents. 1827 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 117 49 That harmony which, even in the deepest recesses of the ocean, pervades the works of Omnipotence. 1885 Cent. Mag. May 59/1 There were people like that, fresh from the hand of Omnipotence. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxxiv. 439 He remembered how passionately he had prayed for the miracle which his uncle had assured him was possible to omnipotence. 1938 D. Gascoyne Sel. Poems (1994) 68 He flung The last curse of regret against Omnipotence. And the lightning struck his face. b. As an attribute of God, or of a person: the fact or quality of having unlimited or infinite power. Also: the fact or quality of having great power or (occasionally) strength. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > power or omnipotence mighteOE craftOE all-mightOE omnipotencec1475 ordinate powerc1475 omnipotencya1500 all-powera1681 omnipotentness1727 c1475 Mankind (1969) 461 (MED) We intende to gather mony, yf yt plesse yowr neclygence, For a man wyth a hede þat [ys] of grett omnipotens. 1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta 3rd Chorus in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Rii^v Who thinks that Ioue the maker of vs al,..Hath not in him omnipotence also To guide and gouerne all things here below? a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. A3 O what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honor, of omnipotence Is promised to the studious Artizan? 1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth ii. 186 Thou sure woldst blush, if thou hadst but one eie, To stand on tearmes with mine omnipotence. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 187 (margin) The Right of Gods Soveraignty is derived from his Omnipotence. 1675 T. Otway Alcibiades iv. i. 47 If so ye Gods ye have such precepts giv'n, That an example would confound your Heav'n, You duties beyond your own omnipotence enjoyn. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 56 The Omnipotence of an Ordinance of Parliament, confirm'd all that was this way done. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator III. 52 For Heav'n's unfathom'd Power what Man can sound, Or put to his Omnipotence a Bound? 1791 M. De Fleury Divine Poems & Ess. 48 Jesus, my God, I trust thy power To make me more than conqu'ror; On thine omnipotence depend, My glorious, all-sufficient friend. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 164 Nations have lost their old omnipotence. 1889 Daily News 3 Apr. 4/8 The omnipotence of Parliament, which means its supremacy over the law. 1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 218 Omnipotence is simply the power of fulfilling the absolute law of perfection as it is realised. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxiv. 358 Could he stand and see his father slowly dissolve and disappear..without once relenting before the omnipotence of death. 1955 Sci. Amer. 68/2 For many patients the notion that the doctor lacks omniscience or omnipotence in his domain is extremely disturbing. 1989 Independent 16 Mar. 26/1 Infantile aggression and feelings of omnipotence..can take possession of a man behind a steering wheel. 2000 M. Ruthven Islam in World (ed. 2) iv. 149 For the Hanbalis..the idea that God was bound to reward the good compromised his omnipotence. 2. Psychoanalysis. The belief that all one's desires will be fulfilled, or that a certain outcome or object can be attained merely by wishing for it.Originally in omnipotence of thought n. [after German Allmacht der Gedanken (Freud 1913, in Imago 2 10); compare earlier Allmacht seiner Gedanken und Gefühle (Freud 1909, in Jahrb. f. Psychoanalyt. u. Psychopathol. Forschungen 1 406)] the belief that one's own thoughts or wishes are omnipotent. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delusion > types of delusion lycanthropy1584 cynanthropy1594 hob-thrush1658 wolf-madness1663 syphilomania1815 hippanthropy1847 zoanthropy1856 boanthropy1864 megalomania1885 plutomania1890 uranomania1890 micromania1892 delusions of grandeur1909 omnipotence1916 nihilism1927 apophenia1959 apophany1960 sundowner1974 sundowning1978 1916 B. M. Hinkle tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. of Unconsciousness viii. 506 The symptom described by Freud, as the ‘omnipotence of thought’ in Compulsion Neuroses..corresponds to the identification with God of the paranoic. 1918 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Totem & Taboo iii. 144 The omnipotence of thought, the over-estimation of psychic forces as opposed to reality, proves to be of unlimited effect in the neurotic's affective life and all that emanates from it. 1952 W. R. D. Fairburn Psychoanal. Stud. (1981) i. 6 The attitude of omnipotence may be conscious or unconscious in any degree. 1982 E. O'Shaughnessy in E. Bott Spillius M. Klein Today (1988) II. ii. iii. 149 The moment a patient expresses himself in words he is restricting his omnipotence—words rest on a recognition of a gap between impulse and fulfilment. 2000 S. G. Shoham Personality & Deviance i. 24 When the depriving object is destroyed, the narcissistic mouth-ego reigns supreme, and its omnipotence is regained. 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