Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Immensity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Destruction; vastation.
- noun Vastness; immense extent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Vastness; immense extent.
- noun obsolete Destruction; vastation.
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- noun
vastness ;immensity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And I could not but thrill as I glimpsed the vastitude of spirit that inhabited these frail, perishing carcasses of us -- the three incorrigibles of solitary.
Chapter 20 2010
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He did not know that it was a mere fractional part of the great island of Ysabel, that was again one island of a thousand, many of them greater, that composed the Solomon Islands that men marked on charts as a group of specks in the vastitude of the far-western South Pacific.
Chapter 1 2010
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"Ah," Walter Merritt Emory murmured, with a vastitude of confidence and assurance.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.
Chapter 22 2010
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The Elsinore is truly the ship of souls, the world in miniature; and, because she is such a small world, cleaving this vastitude of ocean as our larger world cleaves space, the strange juxtapositions that continually occur are startling.
CHAPTER XXVI 2010
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And I, for one, and for still other reasons, congratulate myself upon the vastitude of my good fortune.
CHAPTER XXXVII 2010
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Beyond this, there was no ray in all the vastitude of night that surrounded me; save that, far in the North, that soft, mist-like glow still shone.
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I was confronted with the vastitude of the universe at once, without the ingratiating introduction of the fairy tale.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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The one thing that he accomplished was to depict the ruin of an heroic nature through an insatiable ambition for supremacy, doomed by its own vastitude to defeat itself, -- supremacy of conquest and dominion with Tamburlaine, supremacy of knowledge with Dr. Faustus, supremacy of wealth with Barabas, the Jew of
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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"Ah," Walter Merritt Emory murmured, with a vastitude of confidence and assurance.
Chapter 19 1917
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