wildlier

English

Adverb

wildlier

1. (uncommon) comparative form of wildly: more wildly
   • 1714, Samuel Jones, Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions, London: […] A[rthur] Bettesworth […], and E[dmund] Curll […], page 9:

     How is the Earth about her Axis turn’d? The Sun or it in Motion moſt concern’d? How is it faſten’d, if it does not move? How, if it does? And why not wildlier rove?

   • 1820, Frederic, Baron de la Motte Fouqué, translated by [Julius Hare], chapter 11, in Sintram and His Companions: A Romance. […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 101:

     Even if at times a recollection of Sir Paris and Helen would make the wishes of his heart flame up more boldly and wildlier, yet he needed only a glance at the scarf and sword, and the stream of his inner life forthwith glided along, clear as a mirror, and cheerful.

   • 1822 February 11, John Taaffe, “Elegy on the Death of His Royal Highness Prince Clement, Duke of Saxony, etc. etc.”, in Theodor Hell [pseudonym; Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler], [Johann] Friedrich Kind, editors, Abend-Zeitung auf das Jahr 1822 [Evening Newspaper for the Year 1822], number 36, Dresden: […] Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, stanza I, page 141, column 1:

     At dead of night — a winter night — / Death bestrode the blast, / And conscious Arno’s high-swoln river / Swelled wildlier as he past; / On black and heavy vans he took his flight.

   • 1829 February, Charles M., “To a Nameless One”, in The Ladies’ Museum […], volume I, London: James Robins and Co. […], page 99:

     Yet oh, though no more thine eye glances / An ardent untroubled confession, / It has something that wildlier entrances, / A fonder, a deeper expression.

   • 1847 October, Ellesmere, “May”, in The American Review; a Whig Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Art and Science, volume VI, number IV, New York, N.Y.: George H[ooker] Colton, […]; London: Wiley and Putnam, […], page 405:

     Spring soon will come / And bring their bloom / To bursting flowers;— / Many a silver beam / Crescent moons will stream / On dewy bowers. / Shall they light a sweeter, / Wildlier-happy, scene, / Than where, mute with passion, / On this breast you lean / Bathed with moonlight sheen,— / And I pray, / “Love me, May?”

   • 1851 February 8, “[Dramatic Intelligence.] Haymarket.—Macready’s Last Performance.”, in The Musical World, volume XXVI, number 6, London: […] Myers and Co., […], page 88, column 1:

     The cheering was then renewed, and throats were opened wider than before, and palms met together in harder clap; and hats and Kerchiefs were wildlier flung about, and all things were made more extravagant; […]

   • 1857 February 16, David Gray, “First Years in Buffalo. 1856–1859.”, in J[osephus] N[elson] Larned, editor, Letters, Poems and Selected Prose Writings of David Gray. […], Buffalo, N.Y.: The Courier Company, […], published 1888, page 43:

     The scenery of Earth hath might to dart / Angelic longing thro’ the sluggish vein; / But quicker, wildlier thrills and throbs the heart / Who steers his bark forth on the mighty main / Of mind: O! wanderer, why seek Earth again?

   • 1858, [J. Pallison-Irwin], “The Approach of Winter”, in Sketches of Place and Character, and Other Poems, Glasgow: Walter B. Ogilvie, […], page 84:

     And wildlier sighs each evening grey that hastes / From the black brow of still encroaching night; […]

   • 1878, Francis Davis, “Christian Friendship”, in Earlier and Later Leaves: or, An Autumn Gathering, Belfast: Allen & Johnston, →OCLC, page 434:

     Or where poor Virtue, ’neath the ban / Of some mishap, lay bare and bound; / Or where some wildlier, erring one, / The path to purer life had found— / There bent our Good Samaritan, / With oil and wine o’er every wound!

   • 1880, William Hurrell Mallock, “Ariadne”, in Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, […], stanza VII, page 110:

     Till it ſeemed deſpair changed ſhape, and grew delight, / Whenever the proxy-wail of the chafed waves white / Took heart for a ſtronger guſt, and writhed on high / Wildlier, and the whole ſea-chorus infinite / Sated her gluttonous grief with a vaſter cry.

   • 1890, Lionel Johnson, “Oxford Nights”, in Poems, London: Elkin Mathews; Boston, Mass.: Copeland & Day, published 1895, page 86:

     Now, the lone Square is blind with gloom: / Now, on that clustering chestnut bloom, / A cloudy moonlight plays, and falls / In glory upon Bodley’s walls: / Now, wildlier yet, while moonlight pales, / Storm the tumultuary gales.

   • 1916, Heinrich Heine, translated by Howard Mumford Jones, “The Avowal”, in Heine’s Poem, The North Sea, Chicago, Ill., London: The Open Court Publishing Company, page 56:

     The glimmering twilight slowly deepened, / Wildlier tossed the sea; […]

   • 1918, Cale Young Rice, “The Unborn (A Phantasy)”, in Wraiths and Realities, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 91:

     Second Leader [wildly]. Yes, let us rebel! let us rebel! […] Second Leader [wildlier]. So! It is so!

   • 1919, William H[enry] Babcock, “[Legends of the New World] The Quakeress”, in Legends of the New World, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, page 46:

     Deborah my darling!—mine no longer / But a missioned angel of the Lord! / For her arm rose wildlier and stronger / Than the wielder of the fiery sword.

   • 1936, Aldous Huxley, “March 25th 1928”, in Eyeless in Gaza, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 483–484:

     […] the shame, the dismay at being seen by all those people, let loose at the same time a special physical anguish of its own—a finer-footed, wildlier-fluttering sensation that was no longer a moth, but some huge beetle, revolting to the touch, and yet revoltingly delicious.

   • 1938, Walter de la Mare, “Out of Bounds”, in Memory and Other Poems, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 48:

     Would wildlier sing dark’s nightingale / Where Hera’s golden apples grow?

   • 1941, John B[aker] Opdycke, “Adverb”, in Harper’s English Grammar, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, part one, pages 257–258:

     The following sentences are intended as a review exercise in both adverbs and adjectives, the former chiefly. Rewrite them correctly, explaining what is wrong with them as they stand: […] He drove wildlier than usually, and thereafter we never met again.

   • 1951, Walter de la Mare, “Winged Chariot”, in Winged Chariot and Other Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, page 17:

     Had passion voice, why then the strange delight / Ev’n an hour may bring would pæans indite; / And, seeing no words these mercies could requite, / Age pines, in talk, to skirt the infinite; / As birds sing wildlier when it draws towards night.

   • 1963, “[Index] Authors”, in New Statesman, volume 65, London, page v, column 1:

     Enright, D[ennis] J[oseph]: […] Singing Wildlier

   • 1999 July 13, pepe, “MPG?”, in rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

     Now how come I've owned Paperclip for over 4000 miles and I've Never had better then^[sic] 29 and I'm averaging around 26-27 mpg. Is something the matter? For all I know it runs fine.... I drive a little wildlier then^[sic] tame but still not like a maniac. I mean, I hit the redline in first and second on say, every eighth time I'm in those gears. :)

   • 2001 October 9, Val Adams, “question for any colorblind animators...”, in rec.arts.animation‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

     when wildly successful cartoonist blows up ignorant teacher, chances are she Wont recognize herself, minor godlingesses of that type are notoriously short on self awareness; but go ahead & do it anyway, the rest of us with scars will know the scenario well enough, applaud loudly & make you even wildlier successful.

   • 2007 November 24, Sander Tekelenburg, “Brackets and the Invention of CSS”, in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-12-30:

     And that's only looking at the relatively small minority that uses the roman script. I expect that in the rest of the world there are even many more and wildlier different keyboards in common use.