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vaˈstidity rare.
[Irreg. var. vastity.]
Vastness, vastitude.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 68 A restraint, Though all the worlds vastiditie you had To a determin'd scope. [1812W. Tennant Anster F. ii. xvii, Their heads with curl'd vastidity of wig.] 1929R. Bridges Testament of Beauty iv. 190 The spiritual idea of Friendship, the huge vastidity of its essence. 1931C. Williams Many Dimensions xvii. 260 In the foreground of that vastidity, he saw rising the Types of the Stone. 1962W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use iv. 83 The sense of vastidity of meaning in the sonnet derives from these many transformations of old into new. |