confineless

English

Etymology

confine +‎ -less

Adjective

confineless (comparative more confineless, superlative most confineless)

  1. Boundless.
    • 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]:
      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, page 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.
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