vasty

English

Adjective

vasty (comparative vastier, superlative vastiest)

vast
- c. 1597, [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fovrth; […], quarto edition, London: Printed by P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, OCLC 932916628:
  , III.i
  I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 7
  […] the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea; […]

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