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Illimitable

Illimitable \Il*lim"it*a*ble\, a. [Pref. il- not + limitable: cf. F. illimitable.] Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space.

The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty.
--De Quincey.

Syn: Boundless; limitless; unlimited; unbounded; immeasurable; infinite; immense; vast. -- Il*lim"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Il*lim"it*a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
illimitable

1590s, from il- "not" + limitable.

Wiktionary
illimitable

a. impervious to limitation, without limit.

WordNet
illimitable

adj. without limits in extent or size or quantity; "immeasurable vastness of our solar system" [syn: limitless, measureless, unmeasured]

Usage examples of "illimitable".

Then, as I playfully shook him and turned him around, I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time.

The malthouses and their cowls, the wharves and the gaily painted sailing barges alongside, the fringe of slanting willows turning the silver-gray sides of their foliage towards the breeze, the island in the middle of the river with bigger willows, the large expanse of sky, the soft clouds distinct in form almost to the far distant horizon, and, looking eastwards, the illimitable distance towards the fens and the sea - all this made up a landscape, more suitable perhaps to some persons than rock or waterfall, although no picture had ever been painted of it, and nobody had ever come to see it.

High Mages whoit was rumouredhad found ways to cheat those illimitable laws, and perhaps the gods and other Ascendants possessed such knowledge as well.

Kulp had heard of High Mages whoit was rumouredhad found ways to cheat those illimitable laws, and perhaps the gods and other Ascendants possessed such knowledge as well.

We talked once with a Western man of considerable age and experience who had the placid mind that is sometimes, and may more and more become, the characteristic of those who live in flat countries of illimitable horizons, who said that New Yorkers, State and city, all had an assertive sort of smartness that was very disagreeable to him.

Stone colossi marched in endless night and drove herds of grinning androsphinxes down to the shores of illimitable stagnant rivers of pitch.

Clara came out with a swan's note swelling over mechanical imitation of him to dolorousness illimitable.

To the right, as I looked, the gleaming walls of the crevasse, their top ten feet glittering with a beaded crystalline substance like icing sugar, and here not more than seven or eight feet apart, stretched down into the illimitable darkness, curving away from one another to form an immense cavern the size of which I couldn't even begin to guess at.

Then it overflowed into Asia and during the thirteen years of Alexander's reign he first brought under his power the whole of the Persian dominions, the extent of which was almost illimitable, and then he traversed Arabia and India up to where the Red Sea washes the remotest frontiers of the world.

She resonated with the Void Which Binds, which resonates in turn to sentient life and thought, and then she used the almost illimitable energy of the Void to .

Coming from no man knew where in the illimitable Pacific, it was travelling north on its annual migration to the rookeries of Bering Sea.

But oppositions have the illimitable range of objections at command, which need never stop short at the boundary of knowledge, but can draw forever on the vasts of ignorance.

I must have missed the turning back on to the Berlin road, for it was almost midnight when I finally found it again and I saw no transport cafe - only dark woods and the illimitable miles of white agricultural land, flat and windswept.

It used the shell of the earth valley for its trumpetings, its clangors--but as one hears in the murmurings of the fluted conch the great voice of ocean, its whispering and its roarings, so here in the clamorous shell of the Pit echoed the tremendous voices of that illimitable sea which laps the shores of the countless suns.