widesome
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]widesome (comparative more widesome, superlative most widesome)
- (rare) Characterised or marked by wideness or being wide.
- 1895, John Trafford Clegg, The Works of John Trafford Clegg ("Th'Owd Weighver"), page 406:
- Truly a beautiful day. In these delightfully widesome scenes, under the influence of this bright sun and balmy air, the inner soul of the lover of nature expands with joy.
- 1913, Hamilton Literary Magazine, volume 48, page 180:
- Forth pricks he thro a widesome wood and wilde,
Rejoicing in the mating harmony […]
- 2022, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Before All the World:
- […] and she saw that in each bundle was wrapped a small owl, feathers scorched from bodies, eyes widesome and blinkless.