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confineless

confineless adjective: boundless.

Adjective

confineless (comparative more confineless, superlative most confineless)

  1. Boundless.
    • 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.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...
    • 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!”1838, William Ball, Freemen and Slaves, London: Saunders & Otley, Act I, Scene 3, p. 15

Forms of confineless

comparativemore confineless
superlativemost confineless

Origin of confineless

From confine + -less.

Questions about confineless

What does confineless mean?
Confineless means boundless.
What part of speech is confineless?
Confineless is an adjective.

Words near confineless in the dictionary

  1. confined spaces
  2. confinedly
  3. confinedness
  4. confinee
  5. confinees
  6. confineless
  7. confinement
  8. confinement loaf
  9. confinement time
  10. confinement times
  11. confinements

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