Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being illimitable.
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Examples
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As Dexter enters manhood, the complex dream in which Judy and her world of social grandeur and illimitability remains with him, while he takes steps to transcend his own limited life, persuading his father to send him east to the Ivy League, where, with a subtle blend of dream and hard-headedness, he acquires the clothes and the mannerisms of Judy's class, while realizing that he can never himself fully enter it.
Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World' Flanagan, Thomas 2000
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Science would still be confronted with the same illimitability of space, the same infinitude of matter, and the same incomprehensibility of the world-arranging intelligence that lies beyond.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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We are satisfied with illimitability at one end, why not at the other? '
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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One, by the power of the Divine Oneness, should celebrate as One the whole and one Deity — the one Cause of all — which is before every one and multitude, and part and whole, and limit and illimitability, and term and infinity, which bounds all things that be, even the Being Itself, and is uniquely
Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897
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Exterior illimitability and interior indivisibility are simple phases of the same attribute of _necessary continuity_ contemplated under different aspects.
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From this principle flows another upon which it is impossible to lay too much stress, namely; _illimitability and indivisibility, infinity and unity, reciprocally necessitate each other_.
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There is nothing which I more certainly know than that space is infinite, and eternity unbeginning and endless; but I can not comprehend the infinity of space or the illimitability of eternity.
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Gods, a greater and a lesser, thus denying the absoluteness, the infinity, the illimitability, by any category of quantity, of that One
Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847
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Rosemary had never done much thinking, save about the illimitability of her mother’s perfections, so this final severance of the umbilical cord disturbed her sleep.
Tender is the Night 2003
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"boomer" of Oklahoma exploits and spends lavishly because of a sublime confidence in the illimitability of the resources of nature and in the resourcefulness of the coming generations.
The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901
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