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- noun Plural form of
wildwood .
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Examples
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No holiday in the wildwoods was the Jesuit mission.
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There be a time coming when the land itself be threatened with destruction; the groves, the streams, the very sky, not merely here in Arkadia but wildwoods the world over ...
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Taking this further, however, breaking from established routes like the Hero's Journey and trying to map the wilder territories, deliberately going off the track and into the wildwoods where the monster's lurk -- where it ultimately becomes about accepting and integrating the Shadow rather than defeating it (because the defeated Shadow is only really repressed and will therefore always return) -- this can be the start, I think, of Jung's process of individuation.
Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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Taking this further, however, breaking from established routes like the Hero's Journey and trying to map the wilder territories, deliberately going off the track and into the wildwoods where the monster's lurk -- where it ultimately becomes about accepting and integrating the Shadow rather than defeating it (because the defeated Shadow is only really repressed and will therefore always return) -- this can be the start, I think, of Jung's process of individuation.
Magic 101 Hal Duncan 2006
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There we go back from time to time, renewing ourselves at what is left of her springs and streams, her wildwoods and wild meadows.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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On their wildwoods and thickets and deep-tangled ways
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
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Furious yells -- yells that made the wildwoods ring with their intonations -- filed his ears, and a volley of bullets whistled around his head.
Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America Roy Rockwood
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D.C. Automobiles met the delegates at Wrightsville and conveyed the guests through beautiful wildwoods to the home of the Parsleys, and later took them on to Wilmington to attend the "Pageant of the Cape Fear."
History of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs 1901-1925 Sallie Southall Cotten 1925
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The foliage and the flowers were in their glory and the wildwoods were resounding with the songs of the birds.
The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived, 1912
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Cross, the first knight of the Canadian wildwoods, passed from the sphere of earthly life -- a life without a stain, whether among the intriguing courtiers of Paris or in the midst of naked license in the
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