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Finite   /fˈaɪnˌaɪt/   Listen
Finite

adjective
1.
Bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent.  Antonym: infinite.
2.
Of verbs; relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person.  Antonym: infinite.



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"Finite" Quotes from Famous Books



... lend to the Finite now, Mighty Nature! Oh, of Infinity, thou Giant daughter! Mirror God, as in water! Tempest, oh, let thine organ-peal God to the ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... best achievements, the attainment of all its desires. That very restlessness and dissatisfaction is the witness to the dignity of our nature, the grandeur of our destiny. We were made for God, for the attainment of eternal life through union with Him. No being who was merely finite, could be ...
— Gloria Crucis - addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 • J. H. Beibitz

... according to the common method of explaining them. We must certainly seek some new system on this head, and there plainly is none beside what I have proposed. If ideas be particular in their nature, and at the same time finite in their number, it is only by custom they can become general in their representation, and contain an infinite number ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume

... tells us that the supreme Life cannot be finite, temporal. But the sensible signs of the supreme Life according to our faulty perception are temporal and point to an end. The Universe that we perceive is not a perpetuum mobile. The laws of motion that we know all come to a standstill. As the scholars ...
— The Bride of Dreams • Frederik van Eeden

... strode noiselessly on, under the gaslights, under the stars; gaslights primly marshalled at equidistance; stars that seem to the naked eye dotted over space without symmetry or method: man's order, near and finite, is so distinct; the Maker's order remote, infinite, is so beyond man's comprehension even ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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