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boundless, a. and n.|ˈbaʊndlɪs|
[f. bound n.1 + -less.]
A. adj. Without bounds or limits; illimitable; unbounded, unlimited.
1592No-body & Some-b. (1878) 288 He..Fills all the boundless country with applause. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. ii. 133 My bounty is as boundlesse as the Sea. a1625Fletcher Mad Lover iv. i. 16 She is a Princes and by that rule boundles. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 55 ⁋6 With a boundless profusion of compliments. a1796Burns Farew. Eliza, Boundless oceans roaring wide. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 450 A boundless command of the rhetoric in which the vulgar express hatred and contempt. a1859― ibid. V. 562 The Revolution opened to the Churchills a..boundless prospect of gain.
B. n. That which has no bounds, the illimitable.
1909Westm. Gaz. 10 July 3/2 We, a handful of men, concerning ourselves deeply in small matters, are brought face to face with the boundless.
Hence ˈboundlessly adv., and ˈboundlessness.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 22 God..is boundlesly far and wide of me. 1823Byron Age of Bronze xiv, Blood and treasure boundlessly were spilt.
a1619Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 107 Their boundlessnes came to be brought within some limits. 1682Norris Hierocles 99 The boundlessness of desire. 1854J. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxiv. 374 She also knew the boundlessness of his ambition. |