a. [f. LIMIT sb. + -LESS.] Having or admitting of no limits; unlimited, illimitable; unbounded, unrestricted.
1581. Sidney, Astr. & Stella (1591), G 4 b. Say, whether thou wilt crowne With limitlesse renowne.
1612. J. Davies, Wit’s Pilgrimage, civ. (Grosart), 20. To this Sea of Cittie-Commonswealth (Lymittlesse London).
a. 1628. F. Grevil, Sidney, x. (1652), 129. Sir Philip … observed this limitless ambition of the Spaniard.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), III. 57. While the king acts in consent with the parliament … he is limitless, irresistible.
1868. Lockyer, Guillemin’s Heavens (ed. 3), 436. In the depths of limitless space, exist numerous assemblages of stars.
1891. E. Peacock, N. Brendon, II. 58. Almost limitless power of giving pain.
Hence Limitlessly adv., Limitlessness.
1865. Ruskin, Sesame (ed. 2), 145. When the affection has become wholly and limitlessly our own.
1865. Spectator, 4 March, 239/2. The Imperial throne … the power solutus a legibus which in its limitlessness could redress all wrongs.
