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单词 omnicompetent
释义

Definition of omnicompetent in English:

omnicompetent

adjective ɒmnɪˈkɒmpɪt(ə)nt
  • 1Able to deal with all matters.

    全能的

    parents are not omnicompetent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • None of them subscribe to the myth of the omnicompetent designer.
    • Morris' reputational problem is undoubtedly connected to the fact that the debonair, funny, omnicompetent man does not fit our template of a Founder.
    • So we try to select people who are omnicompetent.
    • Walter Lippman (1925) in particular, was skeptical of the idea of an "omnicompetent" citizen who possesses sufficient knowledge to participate effectively in the political process.
    • Her omnicompetent presence provides the children what no one else gives them - unconditional love and a complete cosmology ranging from pre-existing souls to angel tears, to heavenly lollipop trees.
    • Britain's voters have now just about got it clear in their heads that these particular politicians are not omnicompetent either, but, having now lost faith in the whole idea of omnicompetence (good) don't know what to do about it except be miserable (bad).
    • As an absolute and omnicompetent power, from the standpoint of psychological realism it is both an ethical travesty and a practical absurdity.
    1. 1.1 (of a legislative body) having powers to legislate on all matters.
      (立法机构)有全权的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the household, like the king, was omnicompetent and any great household officer, the steward for example, was likely to find himself entrusted with essential political and military tasks.
      • The king's absolute authority over the country at large was embodied in a handful of omnicompetent executive agents, the intendants.
      • He summoned Parliament, which for the first time in English history worked with the king as an omnicompetent legislative assembly, if hesitatingly so.
      • This facility helped to boost the image of the omnicompetent leader.
      • But if capital has not been as omnicompetent and mobile as globalisation theorists sometimes maintain, neither has the state entirely lost its control over the movement of labour.

Derivatives

  • omnicompetence

  • noun
    • Nicole Kidman plays Virginia Woolf, working on the first draft of Mrs Dalloway, the stream-of-consciousness work of 1925, about the society hostess whose air of omnicompetence conceals inner turmoil.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They reinforce images of managerial omnicompetence at the expense of more responsible views of leadership.
      • Moreover, he argues, they have deliberately confused the general public with claims of omnicompetence - all in the service of an egoistic fantasy of ‘speaking truth to power.’
      • Hooker explicitly rejects the Puritan position, as he understands it, on the omnicompetence of Scripture.
      • It may be, in fact, the impossibility of omnicompetence that makes democracy the only viable choice for a system of governance.

Rhymes

competent
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