omniprevalentadj.
/ˌɒmnᵻˈprɛvələnt/, /ˌɒmnᵻˈprɛvl̩(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌɑmnəˈprɛvəl(ə)nt/, /ˌɑmnəˈprɛvl(ə)nt/, /ˌɑmniˈprɛvəl(ə)nt/, /ˌɑmniˈprɛvl(ə)nt/ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > [adjective] > all-powerful
almightOE
all-wieldingOE
almightendc1250
almightfulc1300
compotent1391
almightyc1405
almightiful?a1475
cunctipotentc1485
omnipotenta1522
all-commanding1596
all-powerful1597
omnivalent1602
super-omnivalent1602
omniprevalenta1661
unzoned1662
omnivalous1773
pantocratic1949
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 83 Being Chaplain to the Earl of Dunbar then Omni-prevalent with King James.
1759 R. Rolt Lives Principal Reformers iii. 176 The earl of Warwick, who was then omniprevalent at court, wrote a letter to the archbishop.
2. Prevailing everywhere; universally prevalent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent > that is everywhere
all-pervading1765
omniprevalent1845
1845 E. A. Poe in Evening Mirror 25 Jan. 250/2 The single feather is imperfectly illustrative of the omniprevalent darkness.
a1849 E. A. Poe Wks. (1864) III. 367 The combination of the two omni-prevalent ideas.
1882 E. Coues Biogen (1884) 35 Some form of worship is omniprevalent.
1962 Jrnl. Health & Human Behavior 3 288/1 Omniprevalent since man's emergence from his primordial, protoplasmic substance.., the anxiety state has resisted adequate solution.
1988 Sociol. Theory 6 104/2 When the book was written, the distinction was omniprevalent in professional sociology and the social sciences, and it remains so today.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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