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† ˈwastity Obs.
In 4 wa(a)stete, wastyte.
[f. waste a. + -ity. Cf. OF. gasteté (gl. L. vastitas).]
Desolation. (Only in Wyclif's rendering of vastitas in the Vulgate.)
1382Wyclif Deut. xxviii. 53 Thow shalt ete the fruyt of thi woombe..in angwish and wastete [Vulg. vastitate; 1388 distriyng], with the which thin enemye shal oppresse thee. Ibid. 57 Thei shulen ete hem priuely, for the scaarsnesse of alle thingis in the seege and waastete [Vulg. vastitate; 1388 distriyng], bi the which thin enemy shal oppresse thee. Ibid. Jer. vi. 7 Wickednesse and wastyte. |