omnipotence

om·nip·o·tent

(ŏm-nĭp′ə-tənt)

adj.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

1. One having unlimited power or authority: the bureaucratic omnipotents.

2. Omnipotent God. Used with the.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin omnipotēns, omnipotent- : omni-, omni- + potēns, present participle of posse, to be able; see poti- in Indo-European roots.]

om·nip′o·tence, om·nip′o·ten·cy n.

om·nip′o·tent·ly adv.

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om•nip•o•tence

(ɒmˈnɪp ə təns)

n.

1. the quality or state of being omnipotent.

2. (cap.) God.

[1560–70; < Late Latin omnipotentia]

omnipotence

the state or quality of being infinite in power, authority, or might. — omnipotent, adj.

omnipotence

noun supremacy, sovereignty, dominance, domination, mastery, primacy, ascendancy, pre-eminence, predominance, invincibility, supreme power, absolute rule, undisputed sway leaders who use violent discipline to assert their omnipotence
weakness, inability, vulnerability, impotence, inferiority, frailty, powerlessness

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Translations

قُدْرَةُ كُلِيَّه

všemohoucnost

almægtighed

Allmacht

omnipotencia

kaikkivoipaisuus

toute-puissance

omnipotencijasvemoćsvemoćnost

mindenhatóságteljhatalom

almætti

onnipotenza onnipotente

almacht

allmakt

všemohúcosť

svemoćsvemogućsvemogućnost

omnipotens

herşeye gücü yetme

无限权力

omnipotence

[ɒmˈnɪpətəns] N → omnipotencia f

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omnipotence

[ɒmˈnɪpətəns] n → omnipotence f

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omnipotence

n no pl → Allmacht f, → Omnipotenz f

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omnipotence

[ɒmˈnɪpət/əns] n → onnipotenza

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omnipotent

(omˈnipətənt) adjective

having absolute, unlimited power. the omnipotent power of God.

omˈnipotently adverb

omˈnipotence noun

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The general presented the ambassador with a rich robe, and returned this gallant answer: "That he and his fellow-soldiers were come with an intention to drive Mahomet out of these countries, which he had wrongfully usurped; that his present design was, instead of returning back the way he came, as Mahomet advised, to open himself a passage through the country of his enemies; that Mahomet should rather think of determining whether he would fight or yield up his ill-gotten territories, than of prescribing measures to him; that he put his whole confidence in the omnipotence of God and the justice of his cause, and that to show how just a sense he had of Mahomet's kindness, he took the liberty of presenting him with a looking-glass and a pair of pincers."

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Not in horror, however, for since my recently acquired knowledge of the Holy Therns I was prepared for anything in this still less accessible heaven, where all was evidently dictated by a single omnipotence; where ages of narrow fanaticism and self-worship had eradicated all the broader humanitarian instincts that the race might once have possessed.

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But the English lawyers had decided that Parliament was omnipotent--and Parliament, in its omnipotence, instead of trial by jury and the Habeas Corpus, enacted admiralty courts in England to try Americans for offences charged against them as committed in America; instead of the privileges of Magna Charta, nullified the charter itself of Massachusetts Bay; shut up the port of Boston; sent armies and navies to keep the peace and teach the colonies that John Hampden was a rebel and Algernon Sidney a traitor.

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"I shall end by believing in the omnipotence of the ghost," he said.

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Shame on me that I have attempted to describe it by so mean an image -- feeling, as I do, that it is one of those symbolic scenes which lead the mind to the sentiment, though not to the conception, of Omnipotence.

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Pagan demon, I credit not thine omnipotence, and so cannot succumb to thy power.

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He remembered how passionately he had prayed for the miracle which his uncle had assured him was possible to omnipotence. He smiled ruefully.

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But how can I, an insignificant mortal, show His omnipotence, His infinity, and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness and sinfulness?" He paused again.

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Not in the riches of omnipotence is the chief glory of God; but in self-denying, suffering love!

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When I will to move my arm, they said, it is not my will that operates on my arm, but God, who, by His omnipotence, moves my arm whenever I want it moved.

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"I know not that their delivery is at hand," returned the doubting David; "the leader of these savages is possessed of an evil spirit that no power short of Omnipotence can tame.

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O, what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honour, and omnipotence, Is promis'd to the studious artizan!