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English
Etymology
From il- + limitation.
Noun
illimitation (uncountable)
- Lack of limitations; freedom from checks or restraints.
1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead:The illimitation of age; and the miseries that attend it.
1848 March, Edgar A Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo P Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” , →OCLC, page 100:No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars.