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English Dictionary: wilderness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wilderness
n
  1. (politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness"
  2. a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
  3. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
    Synonym(s): wilderness, wild
  4. a bewildering profusion; "the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups"; "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wilderness \Wil"der*ness\, n. [OE. wildernesse,
      wilderne,probably from AS. wildor a wild beast; cf. D.
      wildernis wilderness. See {Wilder}, v. t.]
      1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited
            by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain;
            a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
  
                     The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. --Waller.
  
      2. A disorderly or neglected place. --Cowper.
  
      3. Quality or state of being wild; wildness. [Obs.]
  
                     These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint
                     hands. Will keep from wilderness with ease.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Wilderness
      (1.) Heb. midhbar, denoting not a barren desert but a district
      or region suitable for pasturing sheep and cattle (Ps. 65:12;
      Isa. 42:11; Jer. 23:10; Joel 1:19; 2:22); an uncultivated place.
      This word is used of the wilderness of Beersheba (Gen. 21:14),
      on the southern border of Palestine; the wilderness of the Red
      Sea (Ex. 13:18); of Shur (15:22), a portion of the Sinaitic
      peninsula; of Sin (17:1), Sinai (Lev. 7:38), Moab (Deut. 2:8),
      Judah (Judg. 1:16), Ziph, Maon, En-gedi (1 Sam. 23:14, 24;
      24:1), Jeruel and Tekoa (2 Chr. 20:16, 20), Kadesh (Ps. 29:8).
     
         "The wilderness of the sea" (Isa. 21:1). Principal Douglas,
      referring to this expression, says: "A mysterious name, which
      must be meant to describe Babylon (see especially ver. 9),
      perhaps because it became the place of discipline to God's
      people, as the wilderness of the Red Sea had been (comp. Ezek.
      20:35). Otherwise it is in contrast with the symbolic title in
      Isa. 22:1. Jerusalem is the "valley of vision," rich in
      spiritual husbandry; whereas Babylon, the rival centre of
      influence, is spiritually barren and as restless as the sea
      (comp. 57:20)." A Short Analysis of the O.T.
     
         (2.) Jeshimon, a desert waste (Deut. 32:10; Ps. 68:7).
     
         (3.) 'Arabah, the name given to the valley from the Dead Sea
      to the eastern branch of the Red Sea. In Deut. 1:1; 2:8, it is
      rendered "plain" (R.V., "Arabah").
     
         (4.) Tziyyah, a "dry place" (Ps. 78:17; 105:41).
     
         (5.) Tohu, a "desolate" place, a place "waste" or "unoccupied"
      (Deut. 32:10; Job 12:24; comp. Gen. 1:2, "without form"). The
      wilderness region in the Sinaitic peninsula through which for
      forty years the Hebrews wandered is generally styled "the
      wilderness of the wanderings." This entire region is in the form
      of a triangle, having its base toward the north and its apex
      toward the south. Its extent from north to south is about 250
      miles, and at its widest point it is about 150 miles broad.
      Throughout this vast region of some 1,500 square miles there is
      not a single river. The northern part of this triangular
      peninsula is properly the "wilderness of the wanderings"
      (et-Tih). The western portion of it is called the "wilderness of
      Shur" (Ex. 15:22), and the eastern the "wilderness of Paran."
     
         The "wilderness of Judea" (Matt. 3:1) is a wild, barren
      region, lying between the Dead Sea and the Hebron Mountains. It
      is the "Jeshimon" mentioned in 1 Sam. 23:19.
     
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