confineless
English
Adjective
confineless (comparative more confineless, superlative most confineless)
- Boundless.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,
- It is myself I mean: in whom I know
- All the particulars of vice so grafted
- That, when they shall be open’d, black Macbeth
- Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state
- Esteem him as a lamb, being compared
- With my confineless harms.
- 1838, William Ball, Freemen and Slaves, London: Saunders & Otley, Act I, Scene 3, p. 15,
- A passage, left for air, led to a cliff
- That beetled high above a sandy beach
- Washed by confineless billows, which, methought,
- Cried scornfully, “Slave, slave!”
- 1994, Thomas H. Troeger, “Before the Temple’s Great Stone Sill” in Borrowed Light: Hymn Texts, Prayers and Poems, Oxford University Press, p. 138,
- If Nathan’s words inform our praise
- and all the prayers we frame,
- our worship then will leap and blaze
- with God’s confineless flame.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,
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