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confineless en · ADJ

Etymology

From confine + -less.

Meanings

1. Boundless.
   • If Nathan’s words inform our praise and all the prayers we frame, our worship then will leap and blaze with God’s confineless flame. 1994, Thomas H. Troeger, “Before the Temple’s Great Stone Sill”, in Borrowed Light: Hymn Texts, Prayers and Poems, Oxford University Press, page 138:
   • A passage, left for air, led to a cliff That beetled high above a sandy beach Washed by confineless billows, which, methought, Cried scornfully, “Slave, slave!” 1838, William Ball, Freemen and Slaves, London: Saunders & Otley, Act I, Scene 3, p. 15:
   • It is myself I mean: in whom I know All the particulars of vice so grafted That, when they shall be open’d, black Macbeth Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state Esteem him as a lamb, being compared With my confineless harms. c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

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