illimitation
English
Etymology
From il- + limitation.
Noun
illimitation (uncountable)
- Lack of limitations; freedom from checks or restraints.
- 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 Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC, § 1, page 287:
- 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.