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adjective

Almighty adj.

Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. "I am the Almighty God."

Great; extreme; terrible. (Slang) "Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, so that he is in an almighty fix."

The Almighty, the omnipotent God.

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Etymology of 'Almighty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Almighty" Quotes from Famous Books

... unshuttered windows, where they would roar like so many wild beasts. But the protecting hand of God kept them from any real bodily harm. "The Lord was with us," wrote the lady of the house most sweetly, "and preserved us under Love's almighty shade." ...

— Fletcher of Madeley • Brigadier Margaret Allen

... educated. Go into their houses, sir, and see how they thumb their books. Look at the domestic correspondence of our helps and servants, and see how they write and spell. We haven't got the mountains, sir, but our table-lands are the highest on which the bright sun of our Almighty God has as yet shone with its illuminating splendour in this improving world of ours! It is because we are a young people, sir,—with nothing as yet near to us of the decrepitude of age. The weakness of age, sir, is the penalty paid by the folly of youth. We are not ...

— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope

... the age, we knew this man for a poor fisherman and deemed such things too much for him,[FN250] so we supposed that he had stolen them." Cried the King, "O ye filthy villains, begrudge ye a True Believer good fortune? Why did ye not make due enquiry of him? Haply Allah Almighty hath vouchsafed him these things from a source whereupon he reckoned not. Why did ye make him out a thief and disgrace him amongst the folk? Begone, and may Allah never bless you!" So they went out affrighted ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton

... hundred and five men in killed and wounded. Captain Westcott was the only captain killed, but we lost in all nearly nine hundred other officers and men. As soon as the battle was over, an order was issued that all on board every ship should return thanks to Almighty God, who had given us the victory. Many a hearty thanksgiving was offered up that day. It was a solemn ceremony; not a word was spoken fore and aft till the chaplain began the prayers. A dead silence reigned throughout the fleet. The Egyptians and Arabs on shore could not make it out, I've ...

— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston

... had drawn them from their families and homes to the rescue of the holy sepulchre; nor should the dark and crooked counsels of human policy divert them from a pursuit, the event of which was in the hands of the Almighty. Their first offence, the attack of Zara, had been severely punished by the reproach of their conscience and the censures of the pope; nor would they again imbrue their hands in the blood of their fellow-Christians. The apostle of Rome had pronounced; nor would they usurp the right of avenging with ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

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