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单词 vastity
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vastityn.

/ˈvɑːstɪti//ˈvastɪti/
Forms: Also 1600s vaustity.
Etymology: < Latin vastitās or French vastité (= Italian vastità , Spanish vastedad ): see vast adj. and adv. and -ity suffix.
Now rare.
1. The fact or quality of being desolate, waste, void, or empty. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > deserted condition
desertnessa1400
desolationc1460
deserta1500
vastity1545
desolatenessa1626
wastefulness1674
desertedness1818
desertion1876
1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (ix.) f. 162v Aftir the batails were done there remayned a perpetuall vastite & desolacion.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 49 Hauing warre and discorde as the causes of destruction, vastity and penurye.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C2 Finding nothing but emptinesse and vastitie.
1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgr. in Wks. (1630) 130/2 Hee therefore did replenish the vaustity of my empty purse.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman viii. 69 Earthquakes..vpon the face of the Earth, raising of it in one place, leauing gulfes and Vastitie in another.
1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 174 The army of the Gentiles causing desolation, and vastity, shall..destroy the City.
2. The quality of being vast or immense; 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
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 345 In considering the clowdy vastitie and gloomie canapies of our churches.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells i. 4 Th' unbounded Sea and Vastitie of shore, All these expresse a Godhead to adore.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ddd2* The dead Sea, because of its vastity..remains almost immovable.
in extended use.1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea iii. 255 This [Kingdom] of Cyprus is sufficient to satiate the vastitie of these thoughts.1859 W. Adolph Simplicity of Creation p. xi The fifth had read a great part of my work, admired the vastity of physical knowledge embodied therein.
3. A vast or immense space. rare.
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
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 17 Witness the manie sandie parts of Africa and the immense vastities of the new world.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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