Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Wasteness; desolation.
  • noun Vastness; immensity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Vastness.

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  • noun obsolete Emptiness or desolation.
  • noun Vastness.

Etymologies

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From Middle French vastité or its source, Latin vastitas.

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Examples

  • Leone condita lugebantur: for it was a golden age whilst he lived, [2330] but after his decease an iron season succeeded, barbara vis et foeda vastitas, et dira malorum omnium incommoda, wars, plagues, vastity, discontent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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