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measureless, a.|ˈmɛʒ(j)ʊəlɪs|
[f. measure n. + -less.]
Having no bounds or limits; unlimited, immeasurable, infinite.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 231 Þer is a Meede Mesureles þat Maystrie desyret. a1541Wyatt Ps. cii. Prol. 18 Here hath he comfort when he doth measure Measureless mercye to measureless faulte. 1591Spenser Tears of Muses 516 To see thee, and thy mercie measurelesse. 1607Shakes. Cor. v. vi. 103 Measurelesse Lyar. 1797Coleridge Kubla Khan 29 The caverns measureless to man. 1866Liddon Bampt. Lect. vi. (1875) 307 God is parted from the highest forms of created life by a measureless interval. 1887Morris Odyss. ix. 537 He..put forth his measureless might.
Hence ˈmeasurelessly adv., immeasurably, infinitely; ˈmeasurelessness, immeasurableness.
1839Bailey Festus vi. (1852) 77 Joy even in thine anguish;—such was His, But measurelessly more. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xiii. 235 The measurelessness of the calamity. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. xix, Feigned and preposterous admiration varied by a corresponding measurelessness in vituperation. 1887Dowden Shelley I. ix. 435 The man whose life—measurelessly dear to her—seemed to be placed in her hands. |