limit

Word Origin & History

c.1400, "boundary, frontier," from Old French limite "a boundary," from Latin limitem (nominative limes) "a boundary, limit, border, embankment between fields," related to limen "threshold." Originally of territory; general sense from early 15c. Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904.

Example Sentences for limit

Do this up to the limit of your capital and I will make good anything you lose.

They're negotiating now with the Rothschilds to limit the output of the Rio Tinto mines.

There is no limit to the moral baseness of the man of avarice.

As much money as they would pay me was the limit of my expectation.

It was in fact a little way beyond what she had come to count her limit.

But after a whole week of Mabel he decided that the limit had been reached.

But, there is a limit beyond which the plane surface cannot be reduced with safety.

If I save my strength and make the most of it, there is scarcely a limit to what I may do.

There is a limit to the best man's experience; a margin of error in the best man's judgment.

He seemed to say, "I'm ready for anything, the sky is the limit."

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