wilderment

English

Etymology

From wilder +‎ -ment.

Noun

wilderment (usually uncountable, plural wilderments)

1. (archaic) bewilderment.
   • 1817, Thomas Moore, “The Fire-Worshippers”, in Lalla-Rookh:

     And snatched her breathless from beneath this wilderment of wreck and death.

   • a. 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Isobel's Child:

     Too glad for smiling, having bent
     In angelic wilderment
     O'er the depths of God

References

• “wilderment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.