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English
Etymology
confine + -less
Adjective
confineless (comparative more confineless, superlative most confineless)
- 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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.