confineless

English

Etymology

confine +‎ -less

Adjective

confineless (comparative more confineless, superlative most confineless)

1. Boundless.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     It is myself I mean: in whom I know
     All the particulars of vice so grafted
     That, when they shall be open’d, black Macbeth
     Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state
     Esteem him as a lamb, being compared
     With my confineless harms.

   • 1838, William Ball, Freemen and Slaves, London: Saunders & Otley, Act I, Scene 3, p. 15,^[1]

     A passage, left for air, led to a cliff

     That beetled high above a sandy beach

     Washed by confineless billows, which, methought,

     Cried scornfully, “Slave, slave!”

   • 1994, Thomas H. Troeger, “Before the Temple’s Great Stone Sill”, in Borrowed Light: Hymn Texts, Prayers and Poems‎^[2], Oxford University Press, page 138:

     If Nathan’s words inform our praise
     and all the prayers we frame,
     our worship then will leap and blaze
     with God’s confineless flame.