BEYOND MEASURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beyond measure mean? 

• BEYOND MEASURE (adverb)
  The adverb BEYOND MEASURE has 1 sense:

1. in excess or without limit

  Familiarity information: BEYOND MEASURE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEYOND MEASURE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In excess or without limit

Context example:

amazed beyond measure

 Context examples 

How such a thing could have happened puzzled the attendant beyond measure.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her majesty, and those who attended her, were beyond measure delighted with my demeanour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The idea of Edward's being a clergyman, and living in a small parsonage-house, diverted him beyond measure;—and when to that was added the fanciful imagery of Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown, he could conceive nothing more ridiculous.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)