illimitable

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
20
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ɪˈlɪmɪtəbəl/

Definition of illimitable

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Impervious to limitation, without limit.
    “For although in that ancient and diffuſed adoration of IdolLs, unto the Prieſts and ſubtiler heads, the vvorſhip perhaps might be ſymbolicall, and as thoſe Images ſome vvay related unto their deities, yet vvas the Idolatry direct and dovvne-right in the people, vvhoſe credulity is illimitable, vvho may be made believe that any thing is God, and may be made believe there is no God at all.”
    “The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment, and which makes our highest happiness. […] This sentiment is divine and deifying. It is the beatitude of man. It makes him illimitable.”
    “[…] Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, / The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower […]”
    “Through the sense of touch I know […] the illimitable variety of straight and curved lines,”
    “The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall.”

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Etymology

From il- + limitable.

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