illimitable
English
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- enPR: ĭlĭm'ĭtəbəl
- IPA(key): /ɪˈlɪmɪtəbəl/
Adjective
illimitable (comparative more illimitable, superlative most illimitable)
- Impervious to limitation, without limit.
- 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday evening, 15 July, 1838":
- The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment, and which makes our highest happiness. ... This sentiment is divine and deifying. It is the beatitude of man. It makes him illimitable.
- ca. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth [Introduction]:
- The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall.
- 1909, Jack London, Revolution and Other Essays: The Shrinkage of the Planet
- What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast regions, and immeasurable distances. The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering.
- 1992, Peter A. Bucky and Allen G. Weakland, quoting Albert Einstein, The private Albert Einstein, page 86:
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday evening, 15 July, 1838":
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