wilderness

[Wil·der*ness]

A wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War

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A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.

Noun
a wild and uninhabited area


v. t.
A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.

v. t.
A disorderly or neglected place.

v. t.
Quality or state of being wild; wildness.


Wilderness

Wil"der*ness , n. [OE. wildernesse, wilderne,probably from AS. wildor a wild beast; cf. D. wildernis wilderness. See Wilder, v. t.] 1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply.
2. A disorderly or neglected place. Cowper. 3. Quality or state of being wild; wildness. [Obs.]
These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands. Will keep from wilderness with ease.

A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.

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Usage Examples

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

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Other Usage Examples

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

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