wilderness
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈwɪldərnəs/
- Literature
:
ostracismo
- The necessary books, however, never materialized, and the prophet crying in the wilderness of Dorset was never heard from again.
- crying in the wilderness
And, well, he had spent eight years in the wilderness.
- And, well, he had spent eight years in the wilderness.
- I feel like me finding myself was when I went into what I call my wilderness.
- Is Einstein still and Einstein a genius, or is he merely a prophet crying in the wilderness?
- Now Harwood source could be very wrong, but he is not a lone voice in this wilderness.
- So, so the, the, the CIA met with Mayhew and then Roselli and Giancana when, when Nixon was kind of in the wilderness.
- He may not get it right all the time, but he is certainly a lone voice in the wilderness.
Examples
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He said if it weren't for the time he spent in the wilderness, he'd never had the courage to become president.
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We're a minority of undesirables crying out in the wilderness.
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I call those the wilderness years because they were a real struggle.
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Given the time Apple spent in the wilderness, it very likely understands this better than most.
Blog text (26) -
Thus, far from being a lone voice crying in the wilderness, he was in fact part of a much larger phenomenon.
Academic text (2018) -
Scientists have been crying in the wilderness for decades, seemingly to no avail.
Academic text (2000) -
After losing the election, the party found itself in a wilderness, struggling to regain influence and support.
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The organization was in the political wilderness, cut off from important decisions that affected its future.
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Since the leadership change, the team feels like they're in a wilderness, with no clear direction or guidance.
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A series of 1864 Civil War battles between Grant and Lee fought in thick forest with heavy losses
How Influential
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- Literature
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8.2
- US
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wilderness comes from old English wild ('untamed') and -ness ('a state'), first used for land far from people. A helpful way to remember the political sense is to think of someone sent into the wilderness — they are 'cut off' from power and influence.