单词 | vastitude |
释义 | vastituden.ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation harryingc900 harrowingc1000 wastinga1300 destructionc1330 harryc1330 wastenessa1382 wastitya1382 desolation1382 unroningnessa1400 wrackc1407 exile1436 havoc1480 hership1487 vastation1545 vastitude1545 sackc1550 population1552 waste1560 ravishment1570 riotingc1580 pull-down1588 desolating1591 degast1592 devastation1603 ravage1611 wracking1611 ravagement1766 herriment1787 carnage1848 wastage1909 enhavocking- 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (ix.) f. 162 And aftir the bataill their shalbe an vtter perpetuall vastitude and destruccion of them. 2. a. The quality of being vast; immensity. 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 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Vastitude, greatness, exceeding largenesse. 1790 H. Boyd Ruins of Athens in Poet. Reg. (1806–7) 75 The woodland orator,.. Mute and benumb'd, a theatre surveys Whose vastitude appalls him. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 245 The vastitude of the multifarious objects by which she..is environed. 1844 E. B. Browning Crowned & Buried vii The torrid vastitude Of India felt..That name. b. Of immaterial things. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > vastness of quantity or amount hugenessc1380 huginess1559 past proportion1609 immenseness1610 vastnessa1640 enormity1792 vastitude1805 1805 J. Foster Ess. i. iv You adopted a certain vastitude of phrase, mistaking extravagance of expression for greatness of thought. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 39 181 The Abbey performances gave this country a character no other has ever yet achieved for vastitude, precision, and excellence in the grander demonstrations of music. 1884 Congregational Year Bk. 55 They could not see..the measure or the issues of their mission—or, perhaps, its very vastitude had paralysed their energies. c. Unusual largeness. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > hugeness hugenessc1380 monstruousness1545 huginess1559 immanity1586 immenseness1610 immensity1652 enormity1792 colossality1800 enormousness1802 prodigiousness1832 gianthood1841 titanism1851 hugeousness1859 vastitude1876 jumboesqueness1882 monumentality1884 stupendiosity1912 1876 R. Browning Shop 12 He who owns the wealth Which blocks the window's vastitude. 1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley II. 210 If the vastitude of Mr. Gisborne's nose was, as Shelley says, Slawkenbergian. 3. A vast extent or space. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent > that which is latitude?a1475 sea1585 ocean1590 vasture1596 vast1604 vastity1652 vastness1674 immense1791 breadths1839 vastitude1841 Atlantic1865 wide1916 1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man I. vi. 163 Sending up..spires, domes, and cupolas from a superincumbent vastitude of smoke. 1854 S. Neil Elem. Rhet. 71 Onward through the immense vastitudes which the Almighty hand has sprinkled with suns and world-systems. 1883 Liverpool Courier 25 Sept. 4/5 The enormous astral vastitudes were seen to be broken by the domain of another tenant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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