wilderment
English
Etymology
wilder + -ment
Noun
wilderment (usually uncountable, plural wilderments)
- (archaic) The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.
- 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh
- And snatched her breathless from beneath this wilderment of wreck and death.
- 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wilderment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)