unmight
/ˈʌnˌmaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: unmight, unmiht, *unmahtiz