Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as omniscience.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Omniscience.

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  • noun archaic Omniscience.

Etymologies

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From Late Latin omniscientia, or from omniscient +β€Ž -ency.

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Examples

  • God's omnisciency and omnipresency, -- it is a provocation unto the eyes of God's glory.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Sins committed in an especial manner against the eyes of God's glorious holiness and his omnisciency will always have special influence into the ruin of Jerusalem and of Judah.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Hence himself declares that the human nature was not the residential subject of omnisciency; for so he speaks, Mark xiii.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Why, he blasphemes the great attribute of God's omnisciency, he doth implicitly deny that God sees and knows our hearts and thoughts; for if a man did believe the omnisciency of

    The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856

  • Nathanael is much surprised at this, upon which Christ gives him a further proof of his omnisciency, and a kind memorial of his former devotion.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Then it was replied: 'To question election, is to overthrow a great doctrine of the gospel, namely, the omnisciency, and power, and will of God; to take away the liberty of God with his creature, to stumble the faith of the town of Mansoul, and to make salvation to depend upon works, and not upon grace.

    The Holy war, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul John Bunyan 1658

  • Then it was replied: β€˜To question election is to overthrow a great doctrine of the gospel, namely, the omnisciency, and power, and will of God; to take away the liberty of God with his creature, to stumble the faith of the town of Mansoul, and to make salvation to depend upon works, and not upon grace.

    The Holy War 2001

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