Both Uses of
rampant
in
The Call of the Wild
- He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.†
p. 68.2
- Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.
p. 167.6 *rampant = without restraint
Definitions:
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(1)
(rampant as in: rampant growth) something undesired and flourishing in an uncontrolled way
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, rampant can refer to an animal (usually its depiction in an emblem) in which the animal is rearing on its left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile.