1598. Shaks., Merry W., I. ii. 21. You stand vpon your honor: why, (thou vnconfinable basenesse), it is as much as I can doe to keepe the termes of my honor precise.
1669. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 771. Your pity is so great and unconfinable.
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos. (1806), I. 523. [Light and caloric] being of too subtile a nature to be confined in any vessel that we possess, have … been termed unconfinable bodies.
1815. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 291. Light and caloric, those unconfinable powers which so many of these manipulations elicit or require.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk. (1821), I. 152. It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable.
Hence Unconfinably adv.
a. 1657. R. Loveday, Lett. (1663), 161. But I outrun the Constable: Dear Brother, Unconfinably yours to serve you, R. L.
