vastidity

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vastidity (uncountable)

  1. Vastness; immensity.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
      [] a restraint,
      Though all the world’s vastidity you had,
      To a determined scope.
    • 1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 2, stanza 17, p. 43,[1]
      [] in chaise or gig
      Th’ endoctrin’d sage professors lolling ride,
      Their heads with curl’d vastidity of wig
      Thatch’d round and round, and queerly beautify’d;
    • 1900, George Cecil Ives, “A Recollection”, in Eros’ Throne[2], London: Swan Sonnenschein, page 12:
      The way of angels paved with light,
      Over the sleeping sheen of sea,
      Or lifted from each crested height,
      The winds rolled from vastidity,
    • 2010, Tom Bissell, chapter 7, in Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter[3], New York: Pantheon, page 108:
      That BioWare would have a large library was not surprising: Its games are noted for the vastidity of their worlds, all of which must be designed and populated and inhabited.