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wildly, adv.|ˈwaɪldlɪ|
[f. wild a. + -ly2.]
In a wild manner, in various senses.
†1. Without order, irregularly; in disorder or confusion; at random, ‘anyhow’; aimlessly, heedlessly. Obs. exc. as implied in other senses.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 875 Were she neuer so glad, Hyr lokynge was nat foly sprad Ne wildely, thogh that she pleyde. 1450Paston Lett. I. 159 How the cuntre of N. and S. [= Norfolk and Suffolk] stonde right wildely, withowt a mene may be that justice be hadde. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 46 The kynge lyke a louynge broother woulde not sende hys syster wyldely withoute a dowar assured. 1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 128 How wildely then walkes my Estate in France? 1611― Wint. T. iv. iv. 550 As th'vnthought-on accident is guiltie To what we wildely do, so we professe Our selues to be the slaues of chance. a1633G. Herbert Country Parson xxii. (1652) 92 The Questions must be propounded loosely and wildely, and then the Answerer will discover what hee is. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 193 There is more copiousness in things wildely scattered, than in things well and orderly digested. [1727–46Thomson Summer 80 The wildly-devious morning-walk. 1808Scott Marm. vi. Introd. 19 Wildly-loose their red locks fly. 1820C. A. Southey Ellen Fitzarthur 80 Fancy's wildly-roving eye. 1848Dickens Dombey vi, A hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness, wildly mingled out of their places.]
2. Without restraint (in various shades of meaning).
a. Beyond limits of reason; extravagantly, fantastically; distractedly, as if out of one's wits.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xiii. 72 A greet licence han writers and spekers..forto write and speke more wijldeli than thei schulden be suffrid forto write and speke. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1150 As the poore frighted Deare that stands at gaze, Wildly determining which way to flie. 1598― Merry W. iii. iii. 94 Sweating, and blowing, and looking wildely. 1675M. Clifford Hum. Reason 68 This opinion is so wildly uncharitable, that it strikes out ten thousand Millions out of the book of Life, for each single Name that it leaves in it. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. viii. 22 Damon..wildly staring upwards, thus inveigh'd Against the conscious Gods. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. viii, Some of them, upon hearing me talk so wildly, thought I was mad. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T., Forester xii, Enthusiasm frequently..injures those whom it wildly attempts to serve. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. vii, Yet must I think less wildly:—I have thought Too long and darkly, till my brain became..A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. x. II. 663 How many times should we have rushed wildly from extreme to extreme! 1913Daily Graphic 26 Mar. 9/1 ‘The Great Adventure’..is wildly extravagant and yet it is very simple and human.
b. Without moral restraint; dissolutely, licentiously; in freedom from control, at one's own will.
1561tr. Calvin's Four Serm. iii. I. vij, Thei might haue liued in other places wildly & wantonly. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. v. i. 129 That I should..speake of something wildly By vs perform'd before. 1653J. Taylor (Water P.) Cert. Trav. Uncert. Journey 8 Some few do travell in the wayes Divine, Some wander wildly with the Muses nine. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho li, That M. Valancourt had comported himself wildly at Paris, and had spent a great deal of money.
c. With unrestrained or violent movement, feeling, or utterance; vehemently; excitedly; ‘frantically’, ‘like mad’.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 874 Some [bushes] twin'd about her thigh to make her stay, She wildly breaketh from their strict imbrace. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 187 Those septentrionall inundations,..have..wildly deluviated over all the South. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Nemeæan Ode Pindar vii, Some wildly fled About the room, some into corners crept. 1754Gray Pleasure 29 Their raptures now that wildly flow. 1781Cowper Hope 517 The wretch, who once sang wildly, danc'd and laugh'd,..Is sober, meek, benevolent. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxvii, A shout..terminating in a cadence so wildly prolonged, that..the deer started from their glens. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xii. III. 173 The villagers danced wildly to the music. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 212 The flakes sped wildly in their oblique course. 1909Stacpoole Pools of Silence xix, The whole..herd [of elephants] wheeled, trumpeted wildly.
3. a. Without cultivation, naturally, like a wild plant. rare.
1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 180 Valour That wildely growes in them, but yeelds a crop As if it had beene sow'd. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. vii. §5 That which grows wildly of it self is worth nothing.
b. Without the refinement or orderliness of culture or training; rudely, roughly, savagely. Also (now esp.) in good sense: In a free, natural, or unconventional style; with the romantic aspect of uncultivated country.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 88 When he demean'd himselfe, rough, rude, and wildly. 1599― Hen. V, v. ii. 43 Her Hedges.., Like Prisoners wildly ouer-growne with hayre, Put forth disorder'd Twigs. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 1225 The toil-strung youth, By the quick sense of music taught alone, Leaps wildly graceful in the lively dance. 1789G. White Selborne, Invitation 3 The mountain ground, Wildly majestic. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 483 The wildly wooded banks of the Ardoch. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain vii. 44 Here the view became wildly interesting. |