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Might   /maɪt/   Listen
verb
May  v.  (past might)  An auxiliary verb qualifying the meaning of another verb, by expressing:
(a)
Ability, competency, or possibility; now oftener expressed by can. "How may a man, said he, with idle speech, Be won to spoil the castle of his health!" "For what he (the king) may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible." "For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "It might have been.""
(b)
Liberty; permission; allowance. "Thou mayst be no longer steward."
(c)
Contingency or liability; possibility or probability. "Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims, or be right by chance."
(d)
Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark. "How old may Phillis be, you ask."
(e)
Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. "May you live happily."
May be, and It may be, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, maybe, by chance, peradventure. See 1st Maybe.


Might  v.  Imp. of May.


noun
Might  n.  Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity. "What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might?" "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
With might and main. See under 2d Main.





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"Might" Quotes from Famous Books



... since it refers to births per woman. This indicator shows the potential for population growth in the country. High rates will also place some limits on the labor force participation rates for women. Large numbers of children born to women indicate large family sizes that might limit the ability of the families to feed and ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... have loved themselves above everything, and in their occupations and employments have looked to their own honor, and have performed uses and found delight in them not for the use's sake but for the sake of reputation, that they might because of them be esteemed more worthy than others, and have thus been fascinated by their reputation for honor, are more stupid in this second state than others; for so far as one loves himself he is separated from heaven, and so far as he is separated from heaven he is separated from ...
— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg
... Juve, which commits me, my kingdom! It might fan the flame! Worse: it might put a match to ...
— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre
... sentence into this language than the original occupies. I am induced to make this remark, which I am afraid will be considered an excursory one, from the apprehensiveness that some, observing the translations of the Scriptures into this language to be bulkier than the originals, might conclude that extraneous and unnecessary matter had crept in, which a knowledge of the above ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow
... would let his master know where he was. Of course, the scamp knew what we all knew and no more, but it alarmed Josiah, who came to me at once. He was like a scared child. I told him to go home and that Peter had lied. He went away looking as if the old savagery in his blood might become practically active." ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell


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