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limitless, a.|ˈlɪmɪtlɪs|
[f. limit n. + -less.]
Having or admitting of no limits; unlimited, illimitable; unbounded, unrestricted.
1581Sidney Astr. & Stella (1591) G 4 b, Say, whether thou wilt crowne With limitlesse renowne. 1612J. Davies Wit's Pilgrimage civ. (Grosart) 20 To this Sea of Cittie-Common⁓wealth (Lymittlesse London). a1628F. Grevil Sidney x. (1652) 129 Sir Philip..observed this limitless ambition of the Spaniard. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 57 While the king acts in consent with the parliament..he is limitless, irresistible. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 436 In the depths of limitless space, exist numerous assemblages of stars. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon II. 58 Almost limitless power of giving pain.
Hence ˈlimitlessly adv., ˈlimitlessness.
1865Ruskin Sesame (ed. 2) 145 When the affection has become wholly and limitlessly our own. 1865Spectator 4 Mar. 239/2 The Imperial throne..the power solutus a legibus which in its limitlessness could redress all wrongs. |