All 4 Uses
omnipotent
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow
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- Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.†Canto 1.1-11 *omnipotence = the quality of being all powerful - Purgatorio: Canto XI
"Our Father, thou who dwellest in the heavens,
Not circumscribed, but from the greater love
Thou bearest to the first effects on high,
Praised be thy name and thine omnipotence
By every creature, as befitting is
To render thanks to thy sweet effluence.†Canto 2.1-11 - There are the wisdom and the omnipotence
That oped the thoroughfares 'twixt heaven and earth,
For which there erst had been so long a yearning.†Canto 3.23-33 - And as a modest woman, who abides
Sure of herself, and at another's failing,
From listening only, timorous becomes,
Even thus did Beatrice change countenance;
And I believe in heaven was such eclipse,
When suffered the supreme Omnipotence;
Thereafterward proceeded forth his words
With voice so much transmuted from itself,
The very countenance was not more changed.†Canto 3.23-33
Definitions:
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(1)
(omnipotent) all powerfulnote: "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)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)