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illimitation

illimitation noun: lack of limitations; freedom from checks or restraints.

Noun

illimitation (uncountable)

  1. Lack of limitations; freedom from checks or restraints.
    • The illimitation of age; and the miſeries that attend it.1646, Jos[eph] Hall, “Comforts against the Inconveniences of Old Age”, in The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for...
    • No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars.1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 100

Origin of illimitation

From il- + limitation.

Questions about illimitation

What does illimitation mean?
Illimitation means lack of limitations; freedom from checks or restraints.
What part of speech is illimitation?
Illimitation is a noun.

Words near illimitation in the dictionary

  1. illimitability
  2. illimitable
  3. illimitableness
  4. illimitably
  5. illimitate
  6. illimitation
  7. illimited
  8. illimitedly
  9. illimitedness
  10. illimitude
  11. illimitudes

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