illimitude
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[edit]Noun
[edit]illimitude (countable and uncountable, plural illimitudes)
- Something without limits; immensity or boundlessness.
- 1884, William Reid, Romance of Song or The Muse in Many Moods, London: David Bogue, […], page 128:
- […] And round the domed illimitude of heaven, / My soul has revelled with the fleeting clouds; […]
- 1897, Randolph S[inks] Foster, God: Nature and Attributes (Studies in Theology; V), New York, N.Y.: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati, Ohio: Curts & Jennings, page 127:
- When we think of the vastness of the universe, spread forth in the infinite abysm of what we call space, itself immeasurable, and of the illimitudes of time through which its history extends, and attempt to conceive of a Being whose mysterious presence fills all, so that no atomic part or increment is without him; whose presence and power touch all, and always; […]
- 1911, Brewer Mattocks, Ad Tiberim or The Fall of the Gracchi: An Epic Ballad of the Roman Republic[1]:
- […] From which extending thitherward / Unto Time’s remotest bounds / Where the great Sea of Illimitude / Eternally resounds
- 1913, John Gould Fletcher, The Book of Nature, 1910-1912, London: Constable and Company Ltd, page 44:
- […] And the winds from the 'skylands brought / Over the illimitudes, a thought:— / A thought I could not understand, / That earth lay shadowed ’neath God’s hand.
- 1919 December, Abydos, “Mr. George Moore Abdicates”, in Austin Harrison, editor, The English Review, London, page 490:
- He withdraws—to the illimitude of the arm-chair.
- 1950, Marjorie L. Burke, Origin of History as Metaphysic, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, pages 14–15:
- Accordingly, if the ego exists in itself, it must have an existence different from the self whose image is given in perception, which must be infinitely far from the substantial ego, which is confined by the phenomenal construction of the body so that it may be instructed in its own illimitude, and self-consciousness must advance in the manner of an infinitesimal calculus whereby the self, the bodily image, proportionately recedes.