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noun

Limitation n.

1.

The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. "They had no right to mistake the limitation... of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible modes of existence in the universe."

2.

That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought. "The cause of error is ignorance what restraints and limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable."

3.

A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.

4.

A limited time within or during which something is to be done. "You have stood your limitation, and the tribunes Endue you with the people's voice."

5.

(Law)

(a)

A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.

(b)

A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.

(c)

A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.

To know one's own limitations, to know the reach and limits of one's abilities.

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Etymology of 'Limitation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Limitation" Quotes from Famous Books

... then is to secure for philology the universally educative results which it should bring about. The means: the limitation of the number of those engaged in the philological profession (doubtful whether young men should be made acquainted with philology at all). Criticism of the philologist. The value of antiquity: it sinks with you: how deeply you must have sunk, since its value ...

— We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18) • Friedrich Nietzsche

... be preached to every creature, he might delegate to the sovereign of his choice the right, or rather the duty of sending his subjects to convert the heathen within a prescribed portion of the Indies—but for no other purpose. Equally clear is the limitation he places to the action of the prince. The latter receives no authorisation from the Pope to invade, occupy, or govern territory in America. His mission is exclusively religious, and any advantage accruing to himself must be merely incidental. Since he may not rightfully use force ...

— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt

... bad thinking, and that the real ennoblement of human life was not so much a creation as a release. He lumped the preventive and destructive forces that keep men dispersed, unhappy, and ignoble under the heading of Prejudice, and he made this Prejudice his fourth and greatest and most difficult limitation. In one place he had written it, "Prejudice or Divisions." That being subdued in oneself and in the world, then in the measure of its subjugation, the new life of our race, the great age, the ...

— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells

... correspondence is maintained with the actual words of the Vulgate (compare the Magdalene dialogue with John xx. 13-17). The Mystery is performed in a church. Each point, it will be observed, imposes a serious limitation. ...

— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne

... the effect of winning for these, then almost forgotten, poets, one generation after another of enthusiastic students. Could he but have known how fresh a source of culture he was evoking there for other generations, through all those years in which, a little wistfully, he would harp on the limitation of his time by business, and sigh for a better fortune in regard to ...

— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

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