half-waking
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[edit ]Adjective
[edit ]half-waking (not comparable )
- In a state of not being fully awake.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. [...], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, [...], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 111:
- Francesca gazed round, as we gaze in some half-waking dream, of whose illusion we seem aware, and yet partake.