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Definition of Omnicompetent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Omnicompetent
Literary usage of Omnicompetent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guild Socialism: An Historical and Critical Analysis by Niles Carpenter (1922)
"His ideas as to the unsuitability of the omnicompetent territorial state, and as
to the virtues of functional democracy and divided sovereignty have been ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"The curia Romana is not a federal court ; it is an omnicompetent court of appeal.
But this is not all. The so-called appellate jurisdiction which is being ..."
3. Social Theory by George Douglas Howard Cole (1920)
"SOCIAL THEORY Thus, misrepresentation is seen at its worst to-day in that
professedly omnicompetent "representative" body—Parliament—and in the Cabinet ..."
4. Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann (1922)
"Moreover, the doctrine of the omnicompetent citizen is for most practical purposes
true in the rural township. Everybody in a village sooner or later tries ..."
5. The American Political Science Review (1920)
"Rev. June, 1920. . The political progress of the English workingman. II.
Conyers Read. Jour. Pol. Econ. July, 1920. . An omnicompetent prime minister. ..."
6. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Men were fast coming to the opinion that it ought to be, in Bentham's phrase, '
omnicompetent,' and that for every wrong there should be a remedy in the ..."
7. The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by Roger Bigelow Merriman (1918)
"The corregidores were, in fact, omnicompetent servants of an absolute king.
Nothing less than this would suffice if they were to make head against the ..."
8. Political Ideas of the American Revolution: Britannic-American Contributions by Randolph Greenfield Adams (1922)
"The rebellion of the thinkers of colonial America against an omnicompetent
sovereign dwelling thousands of miles away is a fact which it is interesting to ..."
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