1592. No-body & Some-b. (1878), 288. He … Fills all the boundless country with applause.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. ii. 133. My bounty is as boundlesse as the Sea.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Mad Lover, IV. i. 16. She is a Princes and by that rule boundles.
1750. Johnson, Rambl., No. 55, ¶ 6. With a boundless profusion of compliments.
a. 1796. Burns, Farew. Eliza. Boundless oceans roaring wide.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 450. A boundless command of the rhetoric in which the vulgar express hatred and contempt. Ibid. (a. 1859), ibid., V. 562. The Revolution opened to the Churchills a … boundless prospect of gain.
Hence Boundlessly adv., and Boundlessness.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 22. God … is boundlesly far and wide of me.
1823. Byron, Age of Bronze, xiv. Blood and treasure boundlessly were spilt.
a. 1619. Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626), 107. Their boundlessnes came to be brought within some limits.
1682. Norris, Hierocles, 99. The boundlessness of desire.
1854. J. Abbott, Napoleon (1855), I. xxiv. 374. She also know the boundlessness of his ambition.
