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UK
/ɒmnˈɪpəʊtəns/
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[ US /ɑmˈnɪpətəns/ ]
[ US /ɑmˈnɪpətəns/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power
How To Use omnipotence In A Sentence
- Mr. Alcott , a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
- Now, while our _idea of God_ thus tells us that God has in his hand all causal chains in the world, and its million-threaded web in constant omni-surveying presence and in all-controlling omnipotence, our reflection on the _world_ and its substance and course also leads us from the _a posteriori_ starting-point of analytical investigation precisely to the same result; it even leads us to a still more concrete conception of this idea -- namely, to the result, that not only the _causal chains, in their totality and in their web_, but also _all single links_ of these chains, The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
- Now, while our _idea of God_ thus tells us that God has in his hand all causal chains in the world, and its million-threaded web in constant omni-surveying presence and in all-controlling omnipotence, our reflection on the _world_ and its substance and course also leads us from the _a posteriori_ starting-point of analytical investigation precisely to the same result; it even leads us to a still more concrete conception of this idea -- namely, to the result, that not only the _causal chains, in their totality and in their web_, but also _all single links_ of these chains, The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
- The great thing about all of this religious or "culty" guff, is that all the sheeple groveling in their steeple, they all have "opinions" about what their deity is "saying" and righteously so, but the deity in the last few thousands of years of "omnipotence", has never once put in a personal appearance. Computerworld News
- For example, I share his concern about the implications of the idea of God's omnipotence for theodicy, and also his unease with a radical separation of God and nature.
- Colleagues who have been frustrated by his omnipotence and intransigence in five years of government, have scented the faint whiff of blood in the water.
- If depression is warded off in phallic omnipotence and evacuated into the feminine part of the personality, we can formulate a psychoanalytic interpretation of Kreon's behaviour.
- Putin's efforts at a Eurasian Union thus appear to be a rearguard action to stem the tide of increasing Chinese omnipotence in Russia's backyard.
- The entire system hinges on omnipotence at the very centre.
- Surely the physical definition implicit in ascribing masculinity to the divine is a contradiction of omnipotence in and of itself. Archive 2007-04-01