Both Uses of
rampant
in
Middlemarch
- As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant.†
Chpt 1 *
- Mr. Hawley's disgust at the notion of the "Pioneer" being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political—as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant—was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr. Brooke's own family.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(rampant as in: rampant growth) unrestrained -- typically something harmful