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illimitability
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Noun
illimitability (uncountable)
- Quality of being illimitable.
- 1851, Alexander Von Humboldt, Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander Von Humboldt, Volume 3, H. G. Bohn, →ISBN Invalid ISBN:
- The boundless capacity for repetition, and the illimitability of numbers, is typical of the character of eternity and of the infinitude of nature.
- 1864, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge, The North American Review, Crosby and Ainsworth, page 417:
- Infinite expresses the attribute of illimitability; as applied to Space and Time, Absolute expresses the attribute of totality (incomposite unity or indivisibility), and as applied to God, the attribute of independent existence.
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