vastity

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/ˈvɑːstɪti/

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/ˈvɑːstɪti/ · /ˈvɑːstəti/ · /ˈvæstɪti/ · /ˈvæstəti/

Definition of vastity

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Emptiness or desolation.

“Leo Decimus was so much bewailed in Rome after his departure, that[…]all good fellowship, peace, mirth, and plenty died with him, tanquam eodem sepulchro cum Leone condita lugebantur; for it was a golden age whilst he lived, but after his decease an iron season succeeded[…], wars, plagues, vastity, discontent.”

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noun

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Emptiness or desolation.

“Leo Decimus was so much bewailed in Rome after his departure, that[…]all good fellowship, peace, mirth, and plenty died with him, tanquam eodem sepulchro cum Leone condita lugebantur; for it was a golden age whilst he lived, but after his decease an iron season succeeded[…], wars, plagues, vastity, discontent.”
(countable, uncountable)Vastness.

“there is no […] soule so skittish and stubborne, that hath not a feeling of some reverence in considering the clowdy vastitie and gloomie canapies of our churches […].”

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From vast + -ity, from Middle French vastité or its source, Latin vastitas. Compare Middle English wastite.

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