all-powerful

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Etymology

From all- +‎ powerful.

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all-powerful (not comparable)

  1. Having unlimited power; omnipotent.
    • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. , volume III, London: Corri, ; and sold by Colburn, , and Mackenzie, , →OCLC, page 235:
      Imagination is faithful when it is all-powerful.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 241:
      The friendless Italian was a much safer person than the niece of the all-powerful minister, whose ambition would not stop but at the throne. Francesca might be allowed to detach him from Mademoiselle Mancini, and could then be easily flung aside.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      "Why, dost thou believe that I, who am all-powerful, I, whose loveliness is more than the loveliness of the Grecian Helen, of whom they used to sing, and whose wisdom is wider, ay, far more wide and deep than the wisdom of Solomon the Wise [...] why, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?"

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