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In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] vocabulary
7 archaic vocabulary words
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vacuity
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synonyms: fatuity ???
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Definition:1. emptiness, also of mind2. a vacuum, as in empiness of space3. idleness
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Uses:
He has seen very little, and observed still less. His narration is neither supported by vivacity, to make it entertaining, nor accompanied with information, to render it instructive. It exhibits the pompous artificial diction of the Rambler with the same vacuity of thought.
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the foam-flakes flew over her bulwarks; then all this desolate vacuity of life went away, but gave place to sights more dismal than before.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick (1851)
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the childish, pouty, and rather vacuous expression on her face.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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