omnipotency

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin omnipotentia.

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Noun[edit]

omnipotency (countable and uncountable, plural omnipotencies)

  1. Omnipotence. [from 15th c.]
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , III.2.1.i:
      he is of that power, majesty, omnipotency, and dominion, that no creature can withstand him.