illimitation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From il- + limitation.
Noun
[edit]illimitation (uncountable)
- Lack of limitations; freedom from checks or restraints.
- 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead:
- The illimitation of age; and the miseries that attend it.
- 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:
- 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.