unmight en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈʌnˌmaɪt/
Etymology
From Middle English unmight, onmiȝt, from Old English unmiht, unmeht, unmeaht (“weakness; lack of power”), from Proto-Germanic *unmahtiz (“inability; weakness”), equivalent to un- (“lack or absence of”) + might. Cognate with Dutch onmacht, German Ohnmacht, Icelandic ómáttur (“unmight”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) The absence or lack of might; powerlessness; weakness
They might fail to grant redress either because, to use the expressive words of various ordinances,“there was too great might on the one side and too great unmight on the other,” [...]
2005, Constance Backhouse, Nancy L. Backhouse, The Heiress vs the Establishment:She sees the devil's great malice but she sees also his “unmight:” his powerlessness.
2015, Wendy Farley, The Thirst of God:In this, our lord shewed a parte of the feendes malice, and fully his unmight, for he shewed that the passion of him is the overcoming of the feende.
2006, Nicholas Watson, Jacqueline Jenkins, The Writings of Julian of Norwich, published 1843: