Meaning of wasteness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of being laid waste; desolation.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
3. A wilderness.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,”

“Under her rays, the ground over which we passed assumed a more interesting appearance than during the broad day-light, which discovered the extent of its wasteness.”

“[…] I cannot find words to express the intense pleasure I have always in first finding myself, after some prolonged stay in England, at the foot of the old tower of Calais church. The large neglect, the noble unsightliness of it; the record of its years written so visibly, yet without sign of weakness or decay; its stern wasteness and gloom, eaten away by the Channel winds, and overgrown with the bitter sea grasses […]”

“She of nought affrayd, / Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought”

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