Definition of "vasty" []

• Archaic Vast. (adjective)

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• "Again, there are echoes of Shakespeare, who liked to coin words such as vasty, steepy, and plumpy."
• "On the other hand, in _Requiescat_ there is not a false note, unless it be the dubious word "vasty" in the last line; and even that may shelter itself under the royal mantle of Shakespeare."
• "And yet he was a really truly sailor fresh from the vasty deep."