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Wilderness
Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2 Q1)
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Purchas Pilgrimes) ſome dwell amongſt men, ſome by themſelues apart, and ſome in Wilderneſſe: (..)
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(RQ:Cowper Task)
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 4)
(RQ:Irving Tour on the Prairies) I can conceive nothing more likely to set the youthful blood into a flow, than a wild wood life of the kind, and the range of a magnificent wilderness, abounding with game, and fruitful of adventure.
(RQ:Tennyson Princess)
A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
(RQ:Shakespeare Titus Andronicus Q1)
(RQ:Byron Sardanapalus)
An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.
Unrefinedness; wildness.
(RQ:Shakespeare Measure)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
''Chiefly followed by'' of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Q1)
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
(RQ:Byron Don Juan)
(RQ:Dickens Dombey and Son)
(RQ:Dickens Little Dorrit)
A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may lost.
(RQ:Byron Giaour)
(RQ:Alcott Little Women)
''Often preceded by'' in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; of a politician, party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
(quote-book) in admiration. Perhaps he had learned something from Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins—never bend the knee to the tyrant.