Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WILD'LY
WILD'LY, adv.
- Without cultivation. – More.
- Without tameness.
- With disorder; with perturbation or distraction; with a fierce or roving look; as, to start wildly from one's seat; to stare wildly.
- Without attention; heedlessly. – Shak.
- Capriciously; irrationally; extravagantly. Who is there so wildly skeptical as to question whether the sun will rise in the east? – Wilkins.
- Irregularly. She, wildly wanton, wears by night away/ The sign of all our labors done by day. – Dryden.
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