illimitableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ĭlĭm'ĭtəbəl
• IPA: /ɪˈlɪmɪtəbəl/

形容詞

illimitable (comparative more illimitable, superlative most illimitable)

1. Impervious to limitation, without limit.

   Synonyms: infinite, limitless, unlimited

   Antonyms: limitable, limited

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Credulity and Supinity”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 17:

     For although in that ancient and diffuſed adoration of IdolLs, unto the Prieſts and ſubtiler heads, the vvorſhip perhaps might be ſymbolicall, and as thoſe Images ſome vvay related unto their deities, yet vvas the Idolatry direct and dovvne-right in the people, vvhoſe credulity is illimitable, vvho may be made believe that any thing is God, and may be made believe there is no God at all.

   • 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday evening, 15 July, 1838:

     The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment, and which makes our highest happiness. […] This sentiment is divine and deifying. It is the beatitude of man. It makes him illimitable.

   • 1875, Alfred Tennyson, “The Last Tournament”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 51:

     […] Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, / The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower […]

   • 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 4, in The World I Live In,‎, New York: The Century Co., page 43:

     Through the sense of touch I know […] the illimitable variety of straight and curved lines,

   • ca. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth [Introduction]:

     The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall.

   • 1909, Jack London, Revolution and Other Essays: The Shrinkage of the Planet:

     What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast regions, and immeasurable distances. The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering.

   • 1992, Peter A. Bucky, Allen G. Weakland, quoting Albert Einstein, The private Albert Einstein, page 86:

     My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

   • 1992 September, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, “Notes: Was America a Mistake?”, in William Whitworth, editor, The Atlantic Monthly‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     That everlasting quest for new frontiers continues today as earthlings burst terrestrial bonds and begin the endless voyage beyond planet and galaxy into the illimitable dark.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

   • 1996, Ella Maillart, “Foreward”, in The Alluring Target, Trackless Sands Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

     It may seem strange that someone in love with boats and the sea should love the deserts of Central Asia. The Takla Makan is as far from the sea as you can get. Yet, the sea and the desert are strangely similar. The illimitable expanses of both, stretching away to the horizon on all sides, can inspire exhilarating feelings of freedom, of being master of your own fate. Both the desert and the sea can also be pitiless to the lazy, the unprepared, the unwary traveler who ventures upon them. He may pay with his life for his shortcomings.

派生語

• illimitability
• illimitableness
• illimitably

参考

• inimitable