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omnipotent

/ɑmˈnɪp.ə.tənt/

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What does omnipotent mean?

adjective

  1. Having unlimited power, force or authority.
  2. Describing a cell (especially a stem cell) that is capable of developing into any type of cell or forming any type of tissue (also called a totipotent cell).

noun

  1. An omnipotent being.
More meanings (2)

proper noun

  1. God.

adjective

  1. (archaic) Arrant.

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IPA pronunciation

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This system, which created the omnipotent State and a powerful centralisation, was retained by all subsequent Governments and is preserved to-day.
Gustave Le BonThe Psychology of RevolutionProject Gutenberg ebook #448
Till a house is raised there is no house, and there is no hill till the Nara or Omnipotent says Arise.
George BorrowWild Wales: Its People, Language and SceneryProject Gutenberg ebook #648
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To give power a great force of initiative,--that is, in plain English, to make absolutism omnipotent in order to realize a utopia.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
Nature by making habit omnipotent, and its effects hereditary, has fitted the Fuegian to the climate and the productions of his miserable country.
Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeagleProject Gutenberg ebook #944
He is an Antichrist because he ascribes to his own works the omnipotent capability of conquering sin, death, devil, hell, and the wrath of God.
Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the GalatiansTranslated by Theodore GraebnerProject Gutenberg ebook #1549