omnipotencyn.

a1500 (a1471) G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 218 in Poems (1899) 20 (MED) God of his omnipotencie Hath brought you now forth to our grete comfort.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 311 To declare his omnipotencie and wisedome.

1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience iv. i Why doest thou doubt of Christ his omnipotencye? But what so he willeth doth so come to passe?

1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C2^v Such is the miraculous omnipotencie of our strong tasted Tobacco, as it cures all sorts of diseases..(if you beleeue their Axiomes) although in very deede it doe both corrupt the braine, and..fill the stomacke full of crudities.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 189 It is Answered, That the Parliament and General Assembly, have an Omnipotency and Arbitrary Power.

1675 T. Brooks Word in Season 20 in Paradice Opened Faith..hath a kind of omnipotency in it, its able to do all things.

1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iii. viii. 118 Conscious that his rivals in omnipotency were entirely enthroned above his reach,..he pointed his enmity at the objects of his power, the human race.

1784 E. Allen Reason vii. §2. 241 His [sc. God's] premised existence at (and not before) any given æra, would be a conclusive objection to the omnipotency of his power.

1820 J. Trumbull Poet. Wks. I. 14 So Britain in her airs so flighty, Now took a whim to be Almighty; Urg'd on to desperate heights of frenzy, Affirm'd her own Omnipotency.

1846 J. F. Cooper Redskins II. xiv. 213 Wide-spread delusion..prevails in the land concerning the omnipotency of the masses.

1884 Atlantic Monthly July 30/1 The will which rebels and contends against the great unseen necessity and the will which submits doggedly to its omnipotency are still in chains.

1918 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 12 196 The fact..does not..derogate from that legal omnipotency which, from a constitutional point of view, the sovereign state possesses.

1948 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 8 369 Kierkegaard was interested in the ‘I am’..in order to stall the omnipotency of philosophy's concept of ‘being’.

1996 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 2 678 Why does the omnipotent choose not to exercise his omnipotency? Why does the good create the bad?

a1525 Mary Magdalen (Digby) 81 Holy god, hyest of omnipotency.

1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor l. 158 The shape and workemanship of omnipotency.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila 54 Omnipotencies Self did largely shed His mystick Oil of Joy.

1683 N. Paterson To his Royal Highnes James Duke of Albanie l. 35, in Fanatick Indulgence Oft omnipotency lurkes, untill The Creaturs Pollicy, and prowess fail.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. xiv. 15 All things being equally easie to Omnipotency.

1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 47 The parliament cannot make 2 and 2, 5: Omnipotency cannot do it.

1776 J. Leacock Fall Brit. Tyranny iii. iii. 26 Their omnipotencies, their demi-godships (as they think themselves) no doubt think it too great a favour done us to throw our petitions under their table, much less vouchase to read them.

1784 E. Allen Reason ii. 64 The power of existence is essential to omnipotency, for without the existence of it there could be no such power in the universe.

1851 E. S. Wortley Honour to Labour 50 There full-orbed Omnipotencies deign to glass themselves in might.