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wide-spread en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of widespread.
"[…] a danger that the strongest and wisest of mankind, in striving to attain to a complete mastery over Nature, should destroy her simplest and widest-spread gifts […]"
1999, William Morris, Norman Kelvin, William Morris on Art and Socialism:High brick walls stand where once stood that rosy and graceful tree; and if there be one object more dreary than another, it is a high, blank brick wall: as little vestige is there left of the wide-spread common.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 231:
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