slumber

nounsleep

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Word Origin & History

mid-14c. alteration of slumeren (mid-13c.), frequentative form of slumen "to doze," probably from Old English sluma "light sleep" (cf. Middle Dutch slumen, Dutch sluimeren, German schlummern "to slumber"). Frequentative on the notion of "intermittent light sleep." For the -b-, cf. number, lumber, chamber, etc. Related: Slumbered; slumbering.

Example Sentences forslumber

They were rather of the sort that closes solemnly in slumber with majestic effect.

The lady had fallen into a slumber, and the whisper was too low to awake her.

I fell asleep, and dreams of warmth and sweet scents lulled me in my slumber.

But slumber would not come; for hours and hours he vainly sought it.

All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.

He who sent you here this night sent you here not to slumber.

Prince Alexis started, and all slumber vanished out of his eyes.

Mr. Quinn, when he was told of the heaviness of Henry's slumber, said "Let him lie on!"

What he would do if Emilio would only slumber he did not know.

Now it did not slumber, but it brooded, like the mist that had so lately left the sea.

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languidness

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