limitation
[lim-i-tey-shuh n]
- a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- something that limits; a limit or bound; restriction: an arms limitation; a limitation on imports.
- the act of limiting.
- the state of being limited.
- Law. the assignment, as by statute, of a period of time within which an action must be brought, or the period of time assigned: a statute of limitations.
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Origin of limitation
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Contemporary Examples
The result will have to be a limitation of the doctrine itself.
The issue in McCutcheon v. FEC is the limitation on aggregate contributions to federal campaigns.
Fitzgerald was a romantic but not a sensualist, a limitation in his writing he acknowledged.
But that limitation really illuminates the talents of these women.
Moreover, the limitation of “major settlement blocs” is squishy at best.
Historical Examples
Their connection continued until 1867, when it expired by limitation.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
Then under this limitation—let me ask you again, why do you wish to please?
Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
He acts with him as a sort of guardian; and that is the limitation of his role.
The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, CompleteMadame La Marquise De Montespan
The greatest strength is observed to have an element of limitation.
IonPlato
It is necessarily limited in range, and its limitation is its strength.
TheaetetusPlato
limitation
- something that limits a quality or achievement
- the act of limiting or the condition of being limited
- law a certain period of time, legally defined, within which an action, claim, etc, must be commenced
- property law a restriction upon the duration or extent of an estate
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Word Origin and History for limitation
n.
late 14c., from Old French limitacion and directly from Latin limitationem (nominative limitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of limitare (see limit (v.)). Phrase statute of limitations attested by 1768.
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