1629 A. Top Psalm CIV in 102 The great and wide reaching Sea.
1758 18 Under pretence of leading us to some fair wide-reaching Prospect, he tempts us to follow him.
1856 G. Grote XII. ii. xciv. 346 The..powerful, and wide-reaching impression.
1911 J. B. Bury et al. 551 One of the measures of this Emperor was the assumption of a wide-reaching guardianship.
2001 5 Dec. i. 19/4 Although the group operated far outside the mainstream its impact was wide-reaching.