[f. FINITE + -TUDE.] The condition or state of being finite; the condition of being subject to limitations; = FINITENESS.
1644. R. Harwood, David’s Sanct. 13. The finitude of the King’s presence.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 514. Nothing is or can be Infinite but the first pure simple Act, who is void of al power and composition; and therefore of al finitude and limitation.
1733. Cheyne, Eng. Malady, I. viii. § 4 (1734), 73. It seems Precision is a Contradiction to Finitude.
1836. Sir G. Head, Home Tour, 128. Human science will never, probably, wholly avert those catastrophes which, either by combustion or explosion, in the melancholy reverse of fortune, serve to remind man of the finitude of his wisdom, by occasionally obtruding the fortunes of the victim on the victor.
1842. De Morgan, Diff. & Int. Calculus, 66. In all known functions, the values of x which satisfy such a condition are separated by intervals of finitude.
1878. Newcomb, Pop. Astron., IV. iii. 505, note. Although this idea of the finitude of space transcends our fundamental conceptions, it does not contradict them, and the most that experience can tell us in the matter is that, though space be finite, the whole extent of the visible universe can be but a very small fraction of the sum total of space.
