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462 words match “MIGHT”

MIGHT n. 2 definitions

gth; force; power; ability; capacity. What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might Spenser. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deut. vi. 5. With might and main. See under 2d Main.

Mighty. [Obs.] Shak.

MIGHTILY adv. 2 definitions

In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29.

MIGHTINESS n. 2 definitions

The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak.

Without; weak. [Obs.]

MIGHTY a. 6 definitions

Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4.

ALMIGHTFUL; ALMIGHTIFUL a.

All-powerful; almighty. [Obs.] Udall.

ALMIGHTILY adv.

With almighty power.

ALMIGHTINESS n.

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.

ALMIGHTY a. 2 definitions

Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. I am the Almighty God. Gen. xvii. 1.

To smite. [Obs.] Spenser.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

An abstract term. The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety." J. S. Mill.

he ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

od of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. B. Jonson.

pon; to run the risk of; to dare. Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan, Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor.

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.

To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordswor…

All; wholly; completely; as, almighty,almost. (b) Etym: [L. ad.]