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Definition of limitation :
1. A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.
2. A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
3. A limited time within or during which something is to be done.
4. A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.
5. A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
6. That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.
7. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
Synonyms:
permission, interception, bound, demarcation, control, limit point, limited, shortcoming, deficiency, interference, increase, point of accumulation, insufficiency, demarcation line, want, ability, circumscription, taboo, bar, weakness, flaw, repression, restraint, inhibition, prohibition, check, strength, lack, suppression, hindrance, constraint, stricture, terminal point, impediment, frailty, latitude, arrest, stoppage, freedom, circumspection, cramp, discouragement, blemish, confinement, fault, deprivation, failing, imperfection, interdiction, obstruction, injunction, curb, inadequacy, definition, trammel, determent, refusal, deterrence, ceiling, perfection, defect, interruption, prevention, terminus ad quem, barrier
limit (part of speech: noun)
confines, end, apex, maximum, restriction, extremity, brink, edge, terminus, border, cutoff, fringe, rim, bounds, limit, zenith, boundary, acme, deadline
qualification (part of speech: noun)
exception, catch, reservation, modification, qualification, provision, condition, proviso, mitigation, allowance, stipulation
Usage examples:
- Surely, I felt, this was a case worth taking up if by any chance we could put a stop or even set a limitation to this nefarious traffic. - "Guy Garrick", Arthur B. Reeve.
- Equally clear is the limitation he places to the action of the prince. - "Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings", Francis Augustus MacNutt.
- That's an indefinite limitation. - "The Eagle Cliff", R.M. Ballantyne.