wilderness
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Noun
(politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness"
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a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
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a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
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a bewildering profusion; "the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups"; "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"