10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VASTIDITY»
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
Ay, just, perpetual durance ; a restraint, Though all the world's vastidity 7 you had,
To a determin'd scope 8. Claud. But in what nature ? Isab. In such a one as (you
consenting to't) Would bark your honour9 from that trunk you bear, And leave ...
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson,
1821
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A Dictionary of the Language of Shakspeare
But still the envious flood Stopp'd-in my soul, and would not let it forth To find the
empty, vast, and wandering air. Richard 3, i. 4. VASTIDITY. Vastness ; immensity.
A restraint, Though all the world's vastidity you had, To a determin'd scope.
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English: containing ...
Vastidity, t. Immensity. A restraint Through all the world's vastidity you had, To a
determin'd scope. Shakesp., Meas.for Mttis., ill, 1. Vastore, t. Vastness. What can
one drop of poyson harme the sea. Whose bugie c/isturts can digest the ill ?
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
Through all the worlJ's vastidity. Soil. * VASTLY, adv. [from vast.] Greatly : to t
great degree. — We grow vastly both in ftrengii and treasures. Temple. — They
differ vastly in tisi manners. Wilkins. — It is vastly the concern of government.
South.
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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the ...
Isab. Yes, brother, you may live ; There is a devilish mercy in the judge, If you'll
implore it, that will free your life, But fetter you till death. Claud. Perpetual durance
? Isab. Ay, just, perpetual durance ; a restraint, Though all the world's vastidity 1 ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone,
1790
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
M 2 VASTIDITY, s. Vastness, immensity. — A restraint Through all the world's
vastidity you had, To a determin'd scope. Meas.for Meat. iii. 1 No other example is
known of this word, which Johnson rightly called barbarous ; but the corrup1
Latin ...
7
Measure for Measure: Evans Shakespeare Edition
68. vastidity: vastness (apparently Shakespeare's coinage). 69. a determin'd
scope: fixed limits, i.e. the ever-present consciousness of the means by which he
had gained his life. 71. bark: strip off (as bark from a tree). trunk: body (with play
on ...
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
Vastidity, s. Vastness, immensity. — A restraint Through nil the world's vastidity
you had, To a determin'd scope. Meat. /or Meat. iii. 1. No other example is known
of this word, which Johnson rightly called barbarous; but the corrupt Latin word ...
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
A restraint Through all the world's vastidity you had, To a determin'd scope. M cos
. for Meat., m. 1. No other example is known of this word, which Johnson rightly
called barbarous ; but the corrupt Latin word vastiditas, and its English derivative,
...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright,
1872
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The London encyclopaedia: or, Universal dictionary of ...
Vast'ness, n. s. Vast'y, adj. vastidity (both unusual) signify waste ; depopulation ;
wildness : vastly and correspond with the adjective vast : vasty is enormously
great ; immense. Perpetual durance, Through all the world's vastidity.
Shakspeare.
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