almightiful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]almightiful (comparative more almightiful, superlative most almightiful)
- (obsolete, Early Modern) almighty; all-powerful
- 1550, “[Preface]”, in An epistle both of Godly consolacion and also of aduertisement […][1], folios 2v–3r:
- 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 […][2], folio 6v:
- 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.
Further reading
[edit]- “almightiful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.