Meaning

noun the greatest possible degree of something

verb place limits on (extent or access)

verb restrict or confine,

originFrom Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.

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