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almightiness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɔːlˈmaɪtinəs/ (US)
• /ɔːlˈmaɪtinəs/ (UK)
• /ɔːlˈmaɪtinɪs/ (US)
• /ɔːlˈmaɪtinɛs/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree English almighty Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English almightiness From almighty + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state or quality of being almighty.
   • They rejoice in his almightiness and infinite wisdom, they exult in his supremacy and absolute sovereignty, and are ravished in a view of his universal government, because it is absolutely perfect. 1811, Joseph Bellamy, The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, D.D.: In Three Volumes, Stephen Dodge, page 520:
   • The mere assumption of a doubt for the purpose of the inquiry, is painful to him, for it presents to his mind illimitable space, dark, desolate and blank; void of the benignity, the almightiness and the perfect intelligence of the Supreme, and his own existence as a transient flame, and his moral constitution and sense of obligation and duty merely as machinery vainly to regulate his actions to which there are to be no corresponding consequences. 1836, William Frend De Morgan, The North American Review: Volume XLII, O. Everett, page 468:
   • Such is the almightiness of habit, that it can overcome the original disposition, even when it be fortified by the force of precept; then how much more easily so unprincipled a mind as the Chevalier's? 1806, Joshua Pickersgill, The Three Brothers: A Romance, John Stockdale, page 128:

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