wide-spread
See also: widespread
English
Adjective
wide-spread (comparative wider-spread or more wide-spread, superlative widest-spread or most wide-spread)
- Alternative spelling of widespread
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 231:
- High brick walls stand where once stood that rosy and graceful tree; and if there be one object more dreary than another, it is a high, blank brick wall: as little vestige is there left of the wide-spread common.
- 1999, William Morris, Norman Kelvin, William Morris on Art and Socialism
- " […] a danger that the strongest and wisest of mankind, in striving to attain to a complete mastery over Nature, should destroy her simplest and widest-spread gifts […] "
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