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单词 vastitude
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vastituden.

Brit. /ˈvɑːstᵻtjuːd/, /ˈvastᵻtjuːd/, /ˈvɑːstᵻtʃuːd/, /ˈvastᵻtʃuːd/, U.S. /ˈvæstəˌt(j)ud/
Etymology: < Latin vastitūdo, < vastus vast adj. and adv.
1. Devastation; laying waste. Obsolete. rare.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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