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Vastity. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Vastity Now rare. Also 7 vaustity. [ad. L. vastitās or F. vastité (= It. vastità, Sp. vastedad): see VAST a. and -ITY.]

1   † 1.  The fact or quality of being desolate, waste, void or empty. Obs.

2 1545.  Joye, Exp. Dan., ix. 162 b. Aftir the batails were done there remayned a perpetuall vastite & desolacion.

3 1586.  Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 49. Hauing warre and discorde as the causes of destruction, vastity and penurye.

4 1592.  Nashe, P. Penilesse, Wks. (Grosart), II. 25. Finding nothing but emptines and vastitie.

5 1618.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Penniless Pilgr., Wks. (1630), 130/2. Hee therefore did replenish the vaustity of my empty purse.

6 1622.  Peacham, Compl. Gent., 69. Earthquakes … upon the face of the Earth, raising of it in one place, leaving Gulfes and Vastitie in another.

7 1651.  Raleigh’s Ghost, 174. The army of the Gentiles causing desolation, and vastity, shall … destroy the City.

8   2.  The quality of being vast or immense; vastness, vastitude.

9 1603.  Florio, Montaigne, II. xii. 345. In considering the clowdy vastitie and gloomie canapies of our churches.

10 1635.  Heywood, Hierarchy, I. 4. Th’ unbounded Sea and Vastite of shore, All these expresse a Godhead to adore.

11 1657.  Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 403*. The Dead Sea because of its vastity … remains immovable.

12   transf.  1654.  Cokaine, Dianea, III. 255. This [Kingdom] of Cyprus is sufficient to satiate the vastitie of these thoughts.

13 1859.  Adolph, Simplicity Creation, Pref. (ed. 2), p. vii. The fifth [reader of my MS.] had read a great part of my work, admired the vastity of physical knowledge embodied therein.

14   3.  A vast or immense space. rare–1.

15 1652.  Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., 17. Witness the manie sandie parts of Africa and the immense vastities of the new world.

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