Vastity

Definitions

1. Emptiness or desolation.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. Vastness.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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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