confineless

English

Etymology

confine +‎ -less

Adjective

confineless (comparative more confineless, superlative most confineless)

1. Boundless.
   • c. 1605 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     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, Oxford University Press, p. 138,^[3]

     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.