confineless

confineless

English

Etymology

confine +‎ -less

Adjective

confineless (comparative more confineless, superlative most confineless)

1. Boundless.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,

     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.

   • 1838, William Ball, Freemen and Slaves, London: Saunders & Otley, Act I, Scene 3, p. 15,

     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!”

   • 1994, Thomas H. Troeger, “Before the Temple’s Great Stone Sill” in Borrowed Light: Hymn Texts, Prayers and Poems, Oxford University Press, p. 138,

     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.