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- noun Plural form of
vastitude .
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Examples
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She has only sublimities and vastitudes and water and leaves.
The Waves 2003
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On the verge of the yawning vastitudes that call to you in vain.
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A vision of green vastitudes beneath an April sky,
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The small stars popped and winked and hopped in vastitudes of blue;
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I peer through the darkness and once more I have a sense of that land of imperious vastitudes so unfathomably lonely.
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Yet as I stand there, once more I have a sense of another land, of imperious vastitudes, of a silent empire, unfathomably lonely.
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Suddenly feeling came back to me -- feeling in the shape of overwhelming terror; such a dread of those dark vastitudes as no words can describe, a passionate resurgence of sympathy and social desire.
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Its antidote and corrective are found in a more penetrative thought and juster understanding of the subject, which will preserve the greatness and the immortal destiny of man unharmed despite the frowning vastitudes of creation.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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"From the vastitudes where the world protrudes through clouds like seas up-shoaled,
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