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tutpussant (c.1185)
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tutpussant (c.1185)

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totepossant;  totpoissant,  totpusaunt;  toutpuissant,  toutpussaunt;  tuitpuissant;  tutpeussant,  tutpoissant,  tutposant,  tutpossant;  tutpuissaunt,  tutpuysant  (tustpussaunt)  
  FEW:  posse 9,234a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF:  tout-puissant  TLF:  tout-puissant  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

a.

theol.almighty, all-powerful: 
( MS: s.xivin )  Wer sone fytz tustpussaunt Sainte Marie nus seez aydaunt  Anecdota 17.95
( 1399; MS: s.xv1 )  jeo prie a Dieu toutpuissant que auxi bone soit come jeo savera devisere  Lett & Pet 376.311.5
( 1415 )  je devise m’alme a Dieux toutpuissant  Reg Chich ii 44

s.

le tutpussant
1 almighty: 
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Ce ne me avignye ja [...] ke jo crestien devine e renye Mauhommet le tot pusaunt  Turpin 501
2theol.Almighty God: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  Damnedeu le tut pusant  Proth ANTS 5862
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Alez [...] et [...] Par le Tut Peussant commaundez [...] Ke [...]  S Fran ANTS 2808

[dd]

See also:

pussant  trestutpussant  tut1  tutpoant 
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