单词 | vastidity |
释义 | vastidityn. rare. Vastness, vastitude. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent widenessc1225 largenessa1400 ampleness1509 breadth1532 spaciousness1587 vastness1602 vastity1603 vastiditya1616 spaciosity1620 vastitude1623 latitude1650 immensity1797 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 67 A restraint Though all the worlds vastiditie you had To a determin'd scope. View more context for this quotation 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. xvii. 32 Their heads with curl'd vastidity of wig.] 1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 190 The spiritual idea of Friendship, the huge vastidity of its essence. 1931 C. Williams Many Dimensions xvii. 260 In the foreground of that vastidity, he saw rising the Types of the Stone. 1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use iv. 83 The sense of vastidity of meaning in the sonnet derives from these many transformations of old into new. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1616 |
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