desertedness

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From Girne (Kyrenia) you need to travel east 40 Km along the ugly main road that cuts a deep scar into the coast line - past building sites in various states of desertedness, piles of rubble and streams of cement mixers and builders vans.

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  1. The state of being deserted, uninhabited, or desolate. It is this metaphysical desertedness and loneliness of the great works of architecture and sculpture that deposits a certain weight upon the heart. H. James, Jr., Portraits of Places, p. 62.

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  • From Girne (Kyrenia) you need to travel east 40 Km along the ugly main road that cuts a deep scar into the coast line - past building sites in various states of desertedness, piles of rubble and streams of cement mixers and builders vans. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Is not this place pleasant, for all its desertedness and desolation? " —  Arabian nights. English
  • It might almost have been said that the one place in which one would not have expected to come upon him was in just such a solitude as now surrounded the speakers -- at least in this deepest hour of its desertedness. —  The Triumph Of Night 1916
  • The lack of speech between herself and the man who led her, his often averted face, her own sense of the desertedness of each beauteous spot she passed through, the mossy paths which gave back no sound of footfalls as they walked, suggested, one and all, unreality. —  The Shuttle
  • He stood for a few moments in motionless despair; then glancing round the room, and taking in all its desertedness, caught up his hat, and rushed out into the storm. —  David Elginbrod
 

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