omnipotence

[ om-nip-uh-tuhns ]

/ ɒmˈnɪp ə təns /

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noun

the quality or state of being omnipotent.

(initial capital letter) God.

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Origin of omnipotence

1560–70; <Late Latin omnipotentia, equivalent to Latin omnipotent-omnipotent + -ia;see -ence

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A lot of people I’ve interviewed in that kind of position, and I think men in particular, carry with them a sort of aura of omnipotence.
The BBC’s Katty Kay Shuts Down Men Who ‘Tell Me to Shut Up’|Eugene Robinson|January 23, 2021|Ozy
Videos such as the one portraying Jammeh at the TRRC undermine the myth of his omnipotence, says Baba Galleh Jallow, executive secretary of the TRRC and a former satirist himself.
The Latest Hub of Political Humor: Gambia|Charu Kasturi|November 24, 2020|Ozy
You can go to the Kaaba and shun Allah, but you cannot be a Congressman and question the omnipotence of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Hold Onto Your Penis|David Frum, Justin Green|November 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In the U.S., doctors enjoy a cultural omnipotence, a perception that they do nothing to disabuse.
Is Dr. Drew a Phony?|Duncan Roy|December 17, 2009|DAILY BEAST

The obstinacy of this prince defeats, in ten successive trials, the divine omnipotence, of which Moses is the depositary.
Letters To Eugenia|Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
His pride and self-confidence were deeply wounded;—his wife's elderly aunt did not believe in his omnipotence!
A Hoosier Chronicle|Meredith Nicholson
Besides, in respect to this omnipotence, we shall have to distinguish possibility from actualization, present or future.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3|Plotinos (Plotinus)
But how vain are the calculations of the greatest human intellects, when put in opposition to the overruling will of Omnipotence!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845|Various
From the omnipotence of Parliament the colonists appealed to the rights of man and the omnipotence of the God of battles.
Orations|John Quincy Adams

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