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  • adjective Not waking; dormant, asleep.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ awaking

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Examples

  • And I said unto myself as I walked: What in the old days was sweeter when I was weary with my labour at making of shoes, than to find myself dropping into the death of sleep! how much sweeter then must it not be to sink into the sleepiest of sleeps, the father-sleep, the mother-bosomed death of nothingness and unawaking rest!

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864

  • And I said unto myself as I walked: What in the old days was sweeter when I was weary with my labour at making of shoes, than to find myself dropping into the death of sleep! how much sweeter then must it not be to sink into the sleepiest of sleeps, the father-sleep, the mother-bosomed death of nothingness and unawaking rest!

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

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