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1. Having unlimited power; omnipotent.
   • 1807, de Staël Holstein, translated by D Lawler, “ Chap IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy.  de Staël Holstein. In Five Volumes. Translated from the French, by D Lawler.">…], volume III, London: Corri, ; and sold by Colburn, , and Mackenzie, , →OCLC, page 235:

     Imagination is faithful when it is all-powerful.

   • 1834, L E L, chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara.  In Three Volumes.">…], 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 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?"

   • 1997 March 9, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques.

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