immeasurate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From im- + measure + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]immeasurate (comparative more immeasurate, superlative most immeasurate)
- (rare) Without or beyond measure; unending; boundless.
- 1856, The Eclectic Review, page 164:
- ... Baden, nor Wurtemberg, nor the Hesses, nor even the Catholic court of Bavaria looked with favour upon demands so immeasurate as were put forward in the councils of the archbishops and […] .
- 1897, Laurie Magnus, A Primer of Wordsworth: With a Critical Essay, page 184:
- But this feeling is confined to the native immeasurate forest : no artificial plantation can give it."
- 1921, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, G. Schirmer., page 354:
- This preference for Wagner was carried somewhat to excess, however, and it cannot be doubted that the immeasurate predilection accorded his music in Belgium by an important section of the music-loving public contributed not a little to relegate to obscurity dramatic works which—for all they were more modest—nevertheless merited a better fate.
- 1986, Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz, Collected Poems, 1912-1944, New Directions Publishing, page 281:
- All flowers are hers
who rules the immeasurate seas,
in Cyprus, purple and white lilies tall;
how were it other?
there is no escape
from her who nurtures,
who imperils all.
- 1998, Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 218:
- He loved these breasts of hers, these assertive softnesses that seemed the signature of an immeasurate tenderness hidden behind the world but expressing itself here in full.
- 2012, Debra Webb, Julie Miller, Striking Distance: Forbidden Captor, Harlequin, page 563:
- ...eyes; his craggy, eloquent, wonderful face; his unflinching, immeasurate strength. Boone Fowler had brought her here to destroy all that.
Synonyms
[edit]- (without measure): boundless, endless, immeasurable, immensurate, unending, unlimited