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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Emptiness ordesolation . - noun
Vastness .
Etymologies
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From Middle French vastité or its source, Latin vastitas.
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Examples
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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.
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