[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being bounded; limited extent or range.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 65. Its [the world’s] boundedness … arising unavoidably from its very kind.

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1795.  Southey, Lett. Spain (1799), 57. A mountainous track is well adapted for moonlight by the boundedness of its scenery.

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1886.  M. Arnold, in 19th Cent., 647. The boundedness and backwardness of their spirit.

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