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illimitability

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Noun

illimitability (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being illimitable.
    • 1835, Western Unitarian Association, The Western Messenger, Western Unitarian Association, page 11:
      The boundless capacity for repetition, and the illimitability of numbers, is typical of the character of eternity and of the infinitude of nature.
    • 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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