1674 J. Milton (ed. 2) xi. 487 Wide-wasting Pestilence.
1814 W. Wordsworth 145 Wide-wasting Time.
1887 J. Ruskin Let. 23 July in (1909) XXXVII. 592 I have never yet been so hopeless of doing anything more in this wide-wasting and wasted earth unless we seize and fortify with love—a new Atlantis.