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English
Etymology
From vast + -ity, from Middle French vastité or its source, Latin vastitas. Compare Middle English wastite.
Pronunciation
Noun
vastity (countable and uncountable, plural vastities)
- (obsolete) Emptiness or desolation.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vii: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.
- Vastness.
- , II.12:
- 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 .