unmight
noun/ˈʌnˌmaɪt/
Etymology
From Middle English unmight, onmiȝt, from Old English unmiht, unmeht, unmeaht (“weakness; lack of power”), from Proto-Germanic *unmahtiz (“inability; weakness”), equivalent to un- (“lack or absence of”) + might. Cognate with Dutch onmacht, German Ohnmacht, Icelandic ómáttur (“unmight”).
Definitions
The absence or lack of might
The absence or lack of might; powerlessness; weakness
- They might fail to grant redress either because, to use the expressive words of various ordinances,“there was too great might on the one side and too great unmight on the other,” [...]
- In this, our lord shewed a parte of the feendes malice, and fully his unmight, for he shewed that the passion of him is the overcoming of the feende.
- She sees the devil's great malice but she sees also his “unmight:” his powerlessness.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA