Definition of "infinite"

The number is so infinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]

Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.

1735, Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty

infinite riches in a little room

c. 1589–1590, Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Ievv of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, Act 1

which infinite calamity shall cause to human life

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 147:5

Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.

2012, Helen Donelan, Karen Kear, Magnus Ramage, Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader

For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.

2009, Brandon C. Look, “Symbolic Logic II, Lecture 2: Set Theory”, in www.uky.edu/~look‎, archived from the original on 19 June 2018

Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.

1827–1879 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Part I”, in The Lover’s Tale, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1879, pages 34–35

Cautiously, Hobbes avoided asserting the equality of these infinites, and explicitly characterized the relation between them as non-inequality.

2004, Teun Koetsier, Luc Bergmans, Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study, page 449

[…] prevents overpowered combos and infinites […]

2007, Adam Deats, Joe Epstein, Virtua Fighter 5, page 14