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might

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"Strength or power"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /maɪt/Part of speech nounSorted ghimtStarts with MEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Power, strength, or possibility.

Word origin

From Middle English maught, might, miȝt, myght, from Old English maht, meaht, meht, mieht, miht, mæht (“ability, power; strength; virtue”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahti, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz (“ability, power; force, strength”), from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe (“to be able to, to have power”), from *megʰ- (“to be able”), corresponding to Germanic *maganą (“to be able, may”) + *-þiz. Equivalent to may + -th.

Used in a sentence

  • […]ſtrengthed with all myght, thꝛough his gloꝛious power, unto all pacience and long ſufferyng with ioifulneſſe[…]
  • Since every nation considers itself right, peace lies in balancing the military mights of the possible rivals.
  • He pushed with all his might, but still it would not move.

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