illimitude

plural illimitudes

1. countableuncountableSomething without limits; immensity or boundlessness.

   He withdraws—to the illimitude of the arm-chair.

   1919 December, Abydos, “Mr. George Moore Abdicates”, in Austin Harrison, editor, The English Review, London, page 490

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   […] And round the domed illimitude of heaven, / My soul has revelled with the fleeting clouds; […]

   1884, William Reid, Romance of Song or The Muse in Many Moods, London: David Bogue, […], page 128

   When we think of the vastness of the universe, spread forth in the infinite abysm of what we call space, itself immeasurable, and of the illimitudes of time through which its history extends, and attempt to conceive of a Being whose mysterious presence fills all, so that no atomic part or increment is without him; whose presence and power touch all, and always; […]

   1897, Randolph S[inks] Foster, God: Nature and Attributes (Studies in Theology; V), New York, N.Y.: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati, Ohio: Curts & Jennings, page 127

   […] From which extending thitherward / Unto Time’s remotest bounds / Where the great Sea of Illimitude / Eternally resounds

   1911, Brewer Mattocks, Ad Tiberim or The Fall of the Gracchi: An Epic Ballad of the Roman Republic

   […] And the winds from the 'skylands brought / Over the illimitudes, a thought:— / A thought I could not understand, / That earth lay shadowed ’neath God’s hand.

   1913, John Gould Fletcher, The Book of Nature, 1910-1912, London: Constable and Company Ltd, page 44

   Accordingly, if the ego exists in itself, it must have an existence different from the self whose image is given in perception, which must be infinitely far from the substantial ego, which is confined by the phenomenal construction of the body so that it may be instructed in its own illimitude, and self-consciousness must advance in the manner of an infinitesimal calculus whereby the self, the bodily image, proportionately recedes.

   1950, Marjorie L. Burke, Origin of History as Metaphysic, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, pages 14–15