illimitableness

Updated: May 6, 2025

Spellbound we watched as if forbidden intruders upon a view it was not meet for any but the high gods themselves to see. About it all was a suggestion of illimitableness, of more than earthly majesty, of infinite serenity and measureless calm, which sat upon our spirits with a certain eerie unworldliness.

Clarence Hamilton Poe - Where Half The World Is Waking Up : The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

The latter was always an especial favorite, and his life, by Frederick Myers in the Men of Letters series, was one of the last books she ever read. Already she was learning the illimitableness of knowledge.

Sarah Knowles Bolton - Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

This mighty, irresistible proof accompanied by an ever-increasing knowledge of the conformability to a purpose in everything we see around us, by the conviction of the boundless immensity of creation, by the consciousness of a certain illimitableness in the possible extension of our knowledge, and by a desire commensurate therewith remains to humanity, even after the theoretical cognition of ourselves has failed to establish the necessity of an existence after death.

Immanuel Kant - The Critique of Pure Reason

We cannot raise our confident expectations too high; for 'He is able to do for us exceeding abundantly above all that we ask' as well as 'think. The Apostle has set the limit of our expectations, in the same context, and here it is: 'That we may be filled with all the fulness of God. There are two limits: one is the boundless illimitableness of God's perfection, and the possibilities of our possession of Him are not exhausted until we have reached that infinite completeness.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel,: Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII

Burroughs; "nurtured by the sea, cradled by the sea; he gave one the same sense of invigoration and of illimitableness that we get from the sea. He never looked so much at home as when on the shore his gray clothes, gray hair, and far-seeing blue-gray eyes blending with the surroundings.

Clara Barrus - Our Friend John Burroughs

Vaguely, dreamily he seemed to behold his soul. Night merged into gray day; and night came again, weird and dark. Then up out of the vast void of the desert, from the silence and illimitableness, trooped his phantoms of peace. Majestically they formed around him, marshalling and mustering in ceremonious state, and moved to lay upon him their passionless serenity.

Zane Grey - Desert Gold