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illimited, a.|ɪˈlɪmɪtɪd, ɪll-|
[f. il-2 + limited.]
Not limited; unlimited; unbounded, unrestrained.
1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 61 The vnsatiable couetousnes and illimited encroachment. 1645E. Calamy Indictm. agst. Eng. 13 Some plead for an illimited toleration of all Religions. 1738W. Wilson Def. Reform. Princ. Ch. Scotl. v. (1769) 318 The King was obliged to take a most illimited oath. 1827Aikman Hist. Scot. III. iv. 467 The illimited power of the bishops. 1855Lynch Lett. to Scattered vi. 81 Human wrath may be blind, illimited, or selfish.
Hence iˈllimitedly adv., unlimitedly, unboundedly. iˈllimitedness, the quality of being illimited, unlimited quality or degree.
a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 46 This naturall Law, of Selfe-preservation..doth not so rigorously, and urgently, and illimitedly binde, but that [etc.]. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. viii. §86 The absoluteness and illimitedness of his Commission. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 70 He must exist in the best manner illimitedly and infinitely. 1843Gallenga Italy, Past & Pr. (1848) I. 111 New faith..in the illimitedness of our human faculties. |