wilderment

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English

Etymology

From wilder +‎ -ment.

Noun

wilderment (usually uncountable, plural wilderments)

  1. (archaic) bewilderment.
    • 1817, Thomas Moore, “The Fire-Worshippers”, in Lalla-Rookh:
      And snatched her breathless from beneath this wilderment of wreck and death.
    • a. 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Isobel's Child:
      Too glad for smiling, having bent
      In angelic wilderment
      O'er the depths of God

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