Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Desolation

Desolation , noun

[French désolation, Latin desolatio.]

1.
The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. — Dan. ix. 26
2.
The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
You would have sold your king to slaughter,... And his whole kingdom into desolation. — Shakespeare
3.
A place or country wasted and forsaken.
How is Babylon become a desolation! — Jer. l. 23