All 5 Uses of
omnipotent
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- Chance—or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door—led me first to M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy.†
p. 47.1 *omnipotent = all powerful
- The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence—and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.†
p. 97.7omnipotence = the quality of being all powerful
- It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.†
p. 132.4omnipotent = all powerful
- But to me the remembrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words "I SHALL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT," I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable.†
p. 195.1
- All my speculations and hopes are as nothing, and like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.†
p. 214.5omnipotence = the quality of being all powerful
Definition:
all powerful
note: "omni" means "all". It is often said that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent (all powerful, all knowing, and all present; i.e., present everywhere)