Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not wakened; not roused from sleep or as from sleep.
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- adjective Alternative form of
unawakened .
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Examples
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Sometimes the unwakened heart within her dreamed, as a girl's heart will.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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Her crushed brain, her unwakened powers, resented their wrong dimly to the mass of iron and work and impure smells, unconscious of any remorseless power that wielded it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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Her crushed brain, her unwakened powers, resented their wrong dimly to the mass of iron and work and impure smells, unconscious of any remorseless power that wielded it.
Margret Howth, a Story of To-day Rebecca Harding Davis 1870
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Her crushed brain, her unwakened powers, resented their wrong dimly to the mass of iron and work and impure smells, unconscious of any remorseless power that wielded it.
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Tell him that I don't blame him, but am grateful for the effort that he made; but ask him for the love of God, and youth, and in merciful consideration for the struggle which an ill-advised and unwakened nature makes to hide the strength it thinks its weakness -- ask him never, never, to forget this, when he deals with one again! '
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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Never more for her was that freshness of unwakened feeling which invests all things with a perpetual daybreak of sunshine, and incense, and dew.
Falkland, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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God, and youth, and in merciful consideration for the struggle which an ill – advised and unwakened nature makes to hide the strength it thinks its weakness — ask him never, never, to forget this, when he deals with one again!’
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