"wasteness" meaning in English

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        "The state of being laid waste; desolation."
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        "(obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation."
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          "text": "Under her rays, the ground over which we passed assumed a more interesting appearance than during the broad day-light, which discovered the extent of its wasteness.",
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          "text": "[…] I cannot find words to express the intense pleasure I have always in first finding myself, after some prolonged stay in England, at the foot of the old tower of Calais church. The large neglect, the noble unsightliness of it; the record of its years written so visibly, yet without sign of weakness or decay; its stern wasteness and gloom, eaten away by the Channel winds, and overgrown with the bitter sea grasses […]",
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        "A wilderness."
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        "(obsolete) A wilderness."
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