mighteous

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

mighteous (comparative more mighteous, superlative most mighteous)

1. Possessing might; mighty; powerful; mightily righteous.
   • 1909, Charles Baudelaire, translated by Cyril Scott, The Flowers of Evil:

     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.

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

     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, [...]

   • 1969 Oct, Black World/Negro Digest:

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

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

     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.

Anagrams

• semitough