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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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.

That which is waste; a desert; a waste.

[R.]

Through woods and

wasteness

wide him daily sought.

Spenser.

Noun.

A desolate state; solitude.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zephaniah 1.

wasteness ‎(plural wastenesses)

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