almighty

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  1. adjective Having absolute power; all-powerful: almighty God.
  2. adjective Informal Great; extreme: an almighty din.
  3. adverb Informal Used as an intensive: almighty scared.
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  • Most of it with the almighty, all-potent Pakeha She backed away without even bothering to cloak her nakedness with the skirt. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • None of these sf disaster flicks are about a repenting populace being Saved by the almighty, they are about ordinary heroes defying disaster and saving themselves and/or everybody else. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 01 - January 1999
  • God almighty, the date display The date, the date. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • So obey your lord almighty, and help your brothers in need, —  Qwaider Planet
  • Shimkus claims among other things that only the almighty is responsible for the fate of the Earth. —  RealClimate
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  1. Middle English almighti, from Old English ealmihtig : eall, all; see all + mihtig, mighty (from miht, might; see might1).

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  1. from Middle English almighty, almyghty, almizti, almihti, from Anglo-Saxon ealmihtig, eallmihtig, ælmihtig, ælmeahtig (=Old Saxon almahtig, alamahtig, alomahtig = Old High German almahtig, alamahtig), from eal, eall, all, + mihtig, mighty: see all, adv., and mighty.
 

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