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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vastation /vaˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/

▶noun archaic or literary

1 spiritual purification or purgation.

2 devastation.

– origin C16: from L. vastatio(n-), from vastare ‘lay waste’.

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