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  • noun Plural form of dreaming.

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Examples

  • As for Alma's affair with the painter, the episode is too thinly rendered to bear a complex interpretation, while the accompanying pages on Aboriginal thought systems ( "dreamings") and rock art, which one presumes are meant to lend substance to the affair, read as if copied from a guidebook.

    Look Homeward, Angel Coetzee, J.M. 2008

  • No doubt they were the same kind of dreamings as are present in multitudes of imaginative children; they are only of interest in so far as a sexual element was present; and that was algolagnic in character.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • As an older woman, she had high status and was in charge of certain dreamings that she had inherited with the land to which they were connected, down the female side of the family.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • As an older woman, she had high status and was in charge of certain dreamings that she had inherited with the land to which they were connected, down the female side of the family.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Well, I guess above all things, that which was true many years ago is still true now, and it's still always your face painted across all my dreamings, and I could name you maybe, and I know I wouldn't dare ---

    hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2009

  • But the worlds were flat and dead, a pale shadow of what humanity could achieve in three hundred years, let alone the fully-open imagination and dreamings of a galaxy-spanning AI.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 11.2 of 31.1 2009

  • Sadly, they're not part of my nightly dreamings, but they certainly make up much of my daydreaming.

    Where SeaDrykes go to dance and dream - and a dream source, too Bettina Tizzy 2008

  • Sadly, they're not part of my nightly dreamings, but they certainly make up much of my daydreaming.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008

  • Here you will find stories on Aboriginal dreamings, interviews with Aboriginal artists and information on the different Aboriginal art regions.

    SKY OF ART 2008

  • The recollection of those incidents, and his own share in them, may have been made the more captivating, perhaps, by the weekly dreamings of old Sol and Captain Cuttle on Sundays.

    Dombey and Son 2007

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