Meanings
- uncountableVastness; immensity.
1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 2, stanza 17, p. 43, […] 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;
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[…] a restraint, Though all the world’s vastidity you had, To a determined scope.
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]The way of angels paved with light, Over the sleeping sheen of sea, Or lifted from each crested height, The winds rolled from vastidity,
1900, George Cecil Ives, “A Recollection”, in Eros’ Throne, London: Swan Sonnenschein, page 12That 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.
2010, Tom Bissell, chapter 7, in Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, New York: Pantheon, page 108
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