omnipotence
[om-nip-uh-tuh ns]
- the quality or state of being omnipotent.
- (initial capital letter) God.
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Origin of omnipotence
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Examples from the Web for omnipotence
Contemporary Examples
You can go to the Kaaba and shun Allah, but you cannot be a Congressman and question the omnipotence of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Historical Examples
He bathed in this imaginary future as in the waters of omnipotence.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
If our cause be just—and we know it is— His omnipotence is pledged to its triumph.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
He was not so much a public man as a sort of private god or omnipotence.
Alarms and DiscursionsG. K. Chesterton
Thus, earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savour of omnipotence.
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
Yet even the Will of Omnipotence is subject to the despotism of causation.
Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense MetaphysicsWilliam Thomas Thornton
Word Origin and History for omnipotence
n.
mid-15c., omnipotens, from Middle French omnipotence, from Late Latin omnipotentia "almighty power," from Latin omnipotentem "omnipotent" (see omnipotent). Related: Omnipotency (late 15c.).
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