Both Uses of
omnipotent
in
Jane Eyre
- We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.†
p. 373.5omnipotence = the quality of being all powerful
- I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower — breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me.†
p. 514.7 *omnipotent = 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)