within/beyond the confines of something• Nevertheless, Blake's achievement in producing digestibletheory and illuminatinganalyseswithin the confines of such a short book is considerable.• All the basiclessons should now have been mastered, at least within the confines of a garden.• Berni lives within the confines of a tinyhand-heldvideo game that comes on a keychain.• Although sofas speak of home, they have moved beyond the confines of our living rooms.• At large, Billy the Kid moved beyond the confines of the feud to more general shootings and stockthefts.• They are men who will have committed an offencewithin the confines of their family and community.• The world beyond the confines of the car was silent but no longer still.
Originconfines
(1400-1500)Frenchconfins, from Latinconfine“border”, from com- ( → COM-) + finis“end”