mighteous

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adjective

Possessing might; mighty; powerful; mightily righteous.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivemighteous (comparative more mighteous, superlative most mighteous)

comparative more mighteous · superlative most mighteous

  1. Possessing might; mighty; powerful; mightily righteous.

    We used to sleep the sleep of the mighteous, never reaching for d'epistle tucked, unfriared, under the brillo's ear.

    1969 Oct, Black World/Negro Digest
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    The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll, And thy spirit is yet not a chasm less drear.

    1909, Charles Baudelaire, translated by Cyril Scott, The Flowers of Evil

    Still, it was quite edifying to witness the anxious bustling, and to hear the learned remarks of our dwarf Esculapius; who among other things, was constrained to acknowledge that — "unassisted nature had yet mighteous potential efficacity of her own intrinsic internal force, [...]

    1916, Baynard Rush Hall, James Albert Woodburn, The new purchase

    In the gods and humans, demons and birds I have my followers everywhere obedient to me; Khara and Dushana, the demons, are as mighteous as I myself.

    1998, G. N. Das, Shri Rama: the man and his mission

Origin

From might + -eous, modelled after righteous, equivalent to might + -wise.

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