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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The use of lime in mortar, is to fill up the hollow spaces or vacuities between the grains of sand, and to cement them together, thereby forming a kind of artificial stone.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 by Various
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
They are windows opening on a world as small as your bound feet, a world of ignorances, and vacuities, and kitchen-gods.
From Profiles from China by Eunice Tietjens
All church yards, gardens, and unnecessary vacuities, and all trades that use great fires or yield noisome smells to be placed out of town.'
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
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
