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wastenesses

wastenesses is the plural of wasteness.

Meaning of wasteness

Noun

wasteness (countable and uncountable, plural wastenesses)

  1. (obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation.
    • 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,1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Zephaniah 1:15
  2. (archaic) The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.
    • 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.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...
  3. (obsolete) A wilderness.
    • She of nought affrayd, / Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about wastenesses

What is wastenesses the plural of?
Wastenesses is the plural of wasteness.

Words near wastenesses in the dictionary

  1. wastemans
  2. wastemen
  3. wasten
  4. wastened
  5. wasteness
  6. wastenesses
  7. Wasteneys
  8. wastening
  9. wastens
  10. wasteoid
  11. wasteoids

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