Desart
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Desart is a noun meaning Obsolete spelling of desert.
Meaning
Obsolete spelling of desert.
Example Sentences
Probably he had been thinking of the whole of the simile in Cato, of which that is the concluding line; the sandy desart had struck him so strongly.
Farewell with him all that made sickness pompous—the spell that hushed the household—the desart-like stillness, felt throughout its inmost chambers—[…]
We are like people on a desart island, out here in the wilderness—and if ships won't arrive to tell us how matters come on, we must send one out to l'arn it for us.
See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About vvhoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / Hovv deſart novv it ſtands, expos'd in Air!
Word Forms
- desarts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wearie, compasse, mortall, soyle, playne, crost.
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