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Webster 1913 Edition


Wasteness

Waste′ness

,
Noun.
1.
The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
A day of trouble and distress, a day of
wasteness
.
Zeph. i. 15.
2.
That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
[R.]
Through woods and
wasteness
wide him daily sought.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wasteness

WASTENESS

,
Noun.
A desolate state; solitude.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zephaniah 1.

Definition 2024


wasteness

wasteness

English

Noun

wasteness (plural wastenesses)

  1. (obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation.
  2. (now rare) The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.
  3. (obsolete) A wilderness.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
      She of nought affrayd, / Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought