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Limitation

noun

A principle that limits the extent of something. Synonym: restriction.

The quality of being limited or restricted.

The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed. Synonym: limit. "It is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight"

(law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought.

An act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation). Synonym: restriction.

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... better regulation of Civil Establishments, and of certain public offices, and for the limitation of pensions, and the suppression of certain ...

— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue

... Soldiers, every man; most having seen service, and many who have done gallant deeds. When I speak of them as soldiers, you will understand it in its true sense, Senor. With one or two exceptions, all have held commissions in our army, and with a like limitation, I may say all are gentlemen. The last revolution, which has again cursed our country by restoring its chronic tyrant, Santa Anna, of course threw them out; the majority, as myself, being proscribed, with a price set ...

— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid

... limitation on the part of the defence, the case came to trial. Everybody remembers it,—how for six weeks it was the daily food of Calaveras County; how for six weeks the intellectual and moral and spiritual competency of Mr. James Byways to dispose ...

— The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... the words themselves, which are, 'Receive him that is weak in the faith'; wherein the Lord puts NO limitation in this text or in any other; and who is he then that can restrain it, unless he will limit the Holy One of Israel? And how would such an interpretation foolishly charge the Lord, as if he took care ONLY of those within, but not like care of ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... the United States is a limited government, and so is every State government a limited government. With us this idea of limitation spreads through every form of administration—general, State, and municipal—and rests on the great distinguishing principle of the recognition of the rights of man. The ancient republics absorbed the individual in the state—prescribed his religion and controlled his activity. ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 6: Andrew Johnson • James D. Richardson

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