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overmighty

adj

Etymology

From over- + mighty.

  1. inherited from *mahtīgaz✻ — “mighty”
  2. inherited from *mahtīg✻ — “mighty”
  3. inherited from mihtiġ
  4. inherited from mighty
  5. prefixed as overmighty — “over + mighty”

Definitions

  1. Excessively mighty.

    • Contrariwise, if he leaned to Antiochus, as he must be partaker in his overthrow, so was he sure to be oppressed by him, as by an overmighty neighbour, if he happened to win the victor.
    • In-one-word declaring surely these things, that overmighty Tyrants only, and lawless intruders/And worse than these are we, who the beasts/Affrighting thus utterly (Or, from-the-foundation) chine them/In their own lawful abodes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA