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illimitude

illimitude noun: something without limits; immensity or boundlessness.

Noun

illimitude (countable and uncountable, plural illimitudes)

  1. Something without limits; immensity or boundlessness.
    • […] And round the domed illimitude of heaven, / My soul has revelled with the fleeting clouds; […]1884, William Reid, Romance of Song or The Muse in Many Moods, London: David Bogue, […], page 128
    • 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...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

Examples of illimitude in a sentence

  • […] From which extending thitherward / Unto Time’s remotest bounds / Where the great Sea of Illimitude / Eternally resounds1911, Brewer Mattocks, Ad Tiberim or The Fall of the Gracchi: An Epic Ballad of the Roman Republic:
  • […] 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.1913, John Gould Fletcher, The Book of Nature, 1910-1912, London: Constable and Company Ltd, page 44:
  • He withdraws—to the illimitude of the arm-chair.1919 December, Abydos, “Mr. George Moore Abdicates”, in Austin Harrison, editor, The English Review, London, page 490:

Forms of illimitude

pluralillimitudes

Questions about illimitude

What does illimitude mean?
Illimitude means something without limits; immensity or boundlessness.
How do you use illimitude in a sentence?
[…] From which extending thitherward / Unto Time’s remotest bounds / Where the great Sea of Illimitude / Eternally resounds
What part of speech is illimitude?
Illimitude is a noun.
What is the plural of illimitude?
The plural of illimitude is illimitudes.

Words near illimitude in the dictionary

  1. illimitate
  2. illimitation
  3. illimited
  4. illimitedly
  5. illimitedness
  6. illimitude
  7. illimitudes
  8. Illinese
  9. illing
  10. Illings
  11. Illingworth

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