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单词 unslumbering
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unslumberingadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈslumbering.
(un- prefix1 4.)
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [adjective] > wakeful or sleepless
wakrong1340
wakya1542
watchful1548
wakeful1549
vigilant1620
sleepless1633
waking1690
unslumbering1718
unslumbrous1818
slumberless1820
the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continually in action or operation
wakeful1697
sleepless1792
unslumbering1862
1718 G. Sewell Proclam. Cupid 17 High God,..Who pierces Nature with unslumb'ring Eyes.
1787 Generous Attachment IV. 184 So many hours..devoted to unslumbering nights.
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand xxix There will be an unslumbering eye upon you which you cannot escape.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 xii. 95 We wound along the meadows, by the slumbering houses, and the unslumbering river.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 194 A hundred altars, on each an unslumbering fire.
absolute.1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. viii. 19/1 But Him, the Unslumbering,..we see not.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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