Meanings
nounwilderment (usually uncountable, plural wilderments)
plural wilderments
- archaicuncountableusuallybewilderment.
And snatched her breathless from beneath this wilderment of wreck and death.
1817, Thomas Moore, “The Fire-Worshippers”, in Lalla Rookh […] , London: Longman […]1 more example
Too glad for smiling, having bent In angelic wilderment O'er the depths of God
a. 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Isobel's Child
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