"illimitude" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: illimitudes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} illimitude (countable and uncountable, plural illimitudes)
  1. Something without limits; immensity or boundlessness. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-illimitude-en-noun-0twMRwbx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1884, William Reid, Romance of Song or The Muse in Many Moods, London: David Bogue, […], page 128:",
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          "text": "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; […]",
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          "ref": "1913, John Gould Fletcher, The Book of Nature, 1910-1912, London: Constable and Company Ltd, page 44:",
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          "ref": "1919 December, Abydos, “Mr. George Moore Abdicates”, in Austin Harrison, editor, The English Review, London, page 490:",
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