2. Adjective. Temporarily inactive. ¹
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Definition of Slumbering
1. slumber [v] - See also: slumber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slumbering
Literary usage of Slumbering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems by Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd (1844)
"ARE WE slumbering NOW ? " The night is far spent, the day is at hand : let us
therefore cast off the ... ARE we slumbering now when a watch we should keep ? ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In this series of contradictory instructions may be detected the ever-slumbering
antagonism between Catherine's fixedness of purpose and the ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... stung As if a battle-trump had rung; The slumbering instincts long unstirred
Start at the old familiar word ; It thrills like flame through every limb, ..."
4. Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: Reminiscences by Oliver Hampton Smith (1858)
"How soon we pass from active life to slumbering death! JAMES LOCKHART. WHILE writing
this sketch, I heard of the death of my friend Judge Lockhart, ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1849)
"come disturbed in the long season of peace, a divine judgment was sent to
re-establish our fallen, and I might almost say slumbering faith. ..."
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