almightiful

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English

Etymology

almighty +‎ -ful

Adjective

almightiful (comparative more almightiful, superlative most almightiful)

(obsolete, Early Modern) almighty; all-powerful
- 1550, “”, in An epistle both of Godly consolacion and also of aduertisement ‎, folios 2^v–3^r:
  Which if we do, he wil so defende vs with his almightiful arme, yͭ al foreyne enemies (what euer they be) shal eyther bee vnhable to doe vs any scathe: or els shall be turned in theyr heartes, and of eager enemies shall beecome oure earnest frendes and folowers.
- 1550, Peter Martyr Vermigli, A discourse or traictise concernynge the sacrament of the Lordes supper ‎, folio 6^v:
  And hereto they frame a wonderous great and large argumente gathered of the almightifull power of God, for that he is able to dooe muche greater and higher thinges then this.
- c. 1550–7, A newe mery and wittie Comedie or Enterlude treating upon the Historie of Iacob and Esau ‎, published 1568, folio 4^v:
  God, who by his worde and almightifull decree, / Hath appoynted thee Esau his lord to bee, / Hath appointed some way to haue it brought about.

Further reading

“almightiful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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