omnipotence

[om-nip-uh-tuh ns]

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noun

the quality or state of being omnipotent.
(initial capital letter) God.

Origin of omnipotence

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

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Related Words for omnipotence

control, mastery, authority, power, dominion

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Contemporary Examples of omnipotence

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

Historical Examples of omnipotence

He bathed in this imaginary future as in the waters of omnipotence.
The Spenders
Harry 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 Discursions
G. K. Chesterton
Thus, earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savour of omnipotence.
Self-Help
Samuel Smiles
Yet even the Will of Omnipotence is subject to the despotism of causation.
Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics
William Thomas Thornton

Word Origin and History for omnipotence

mid-15c., omnipotens, from Middle French omnipotence, from Late Latin omnipotentia "almighty power," from Latin omnipotentem "omnipotent" (see omnipotent). Related: Omnipotency (late 15c.).