incircumscription

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English

Etymology

From in- +‎ circumscription.

Noun

incircumscription (uncountable)

  1. (nonce word, rare) The quality of being incircumscriptible, or limitless.
    • 1651–1653, Jer Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. , 2nd edition, London: Richard Royston -lane">…], published 1655, →OCLC:
      his Mercy hath all its operations upon man , and returns to its own centre and incircumscription and infinity, unless it issues forth upon us
    • 1863, The Union Review: A Magazine of Catholic Literature and Art, page 440:
      is conclusively shown by our author in his criticism of the Cur Deus Homo to be at variance with the incircumscription of the Divine Nature
    • 2014 May 7, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 788:
      I, myself, am constantly bird-masked in a costume ball where I can only see the reflections of incircumscription.

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