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noun

Limiter n.

One who, or that which, limits.

A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district. (Formerly written also limitour) "A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his limitation, preached many times, and had but one sermon at all times."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Limiter" Quotes from Famous Books

... whole dilemma revolves pragmatically about the notion of the world's possibilities. Intellectually, rationalism invokes its absolute principle of unity as a ground of possibility for the many facts. Emotionally, it sees it as a container and limiter of possibilities, a guarantee that the upshot shall be good. Taken in this way, the absolute makes all good things certain, and all bad things impossible (in the eternal, namely), and may be said to transmute the entire category of possibility into categories ...

— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James

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