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vastities

vastities is the plural of vastity.

Meaning of vastity

Noun

vastity (countable and uncountable, plural vastities)

  1. (obsolete) Emptiness or desolation.
    • 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...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. 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 […]., II.12

Questions about vastities

What is vastities the plural of?
Vastities is the plural of vastity.

Words near vastities in the dictionary

  1. vastidity
  2. vastier
  3. vastiest
  4. vastily
  5. vastiness
  6. vastities
  7. vastitude
  8. vastitudes
  9. vastity
  10. vastly
  11. vastness

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