vastidity

English

Noun

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.