Meaning of immeasurability | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of immeasurableness.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“As we have⟳ become⟳ resident, we are proscribed under the title of absentees: as we have⟳ grown poor, we are taunted with the immeasurability of our wealth.”

“The Italian sailors of the Mediterranean, and the Greeks of the Archipelago, who very rarely leave⟳ behind them the pillars of Hercules, are for the most part married, because their voyages are of short duration, and they can often return⟳ to the bosoms of their families: but the English, who by the immeasurability of their commerce are citizens of the world, would, if they were married, too seldom enjoy⟳ their home.”

“However much this richness in animated forms, and this multitude of the most various and highly-developed microscopic organisms may agreeably excite the fancy, the imagination is even more seriously, and, I might say⟳, more solemnly moved by the impression of boundlessness? and immeasurability, which are presented to the mind⟳ by every sea voyage.”

“The singularity of the case is, that the very solemnity of the legend, and the immeasurability of time, depend⟳ upon the cubical contents of the monument, so that a loss of one granite chip is a loss of a frightful infinity; yet, again, for that very reason⟳, the loss of all but a chip, leaves behind a time-fund so appallingly inexhaustible, that everybody becomes careless about the four cubits.”

“Retail trade⟳ in a city is not by nature intended to do any harm⟳, but quite the contrary; for is not he a benefactor who reduces the inequalities and immeasurabilities of goods to equality and measure⟳?”

“And in sight of this immeasurability of life, no sadness could endure, but only joy that knew no limit⟳, and happy prayers.”

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