vacuity
noun
vacuities
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pluralof vacuity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the next line but one we discover that— 'No sad vacuities his heart annoy; Blows not a Zephyr but it whispers joy.'
From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney
The side of the head is occupied by four vacuities, separated by narrow bars of bone.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
They take comfort in their detachment, and are apt to speak of themselves, with mock humility, as "plain, blunt persons," for whom the alleged vacuities of such an order of art are-186- comfortably negligible.
From Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries by Lawrence Gilman
The marks of fire were left on various houses of stone, and, here and there, were vacuities, covered with blackened wrecks, where, doubtless, had stood more humble and combustible fabrics.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
In side view the orbits have the triangular form seen in Dimorphodon, and the preorbital vacuities are large, as in that genus, while the lateral nostrils, which are smaller, are further forward in the Dinosaur.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
