VASTITY

Etymology

Noun

vastity (countable and uncountable, plural vastities)

(obsolete) Emptiness or desolation.

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 […].

Source: Wiktionary


Vast"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. vastitas.]

Definition: Vastness. [Obs.] The huge vastity of the world. Holland.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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