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.
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.
3.
A place or country wasted and forsaken.
How is Babylon become a desolation!