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"roman": "blenuvane",
"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "dagdroom"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"word": "haaveilu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"word": "unelmointi"
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"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ocneba",
"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"word": "ოცნება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "zmaneba",
"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"word": "ზმანება"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Tagtraum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"word": "sogno ad occhi aperti"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zamíslenost",
"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "зами́сленост"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"word": "wawata"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "state of dreaming while awake",
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"code": "ru",
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],
"word": "забытьё"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"word": "грёзы"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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"word": "sanjarenje"
},
{
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "conceit of imagination",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "it",
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"ref": "1832 October, [John Gibson Lockhart], “Noctes Ambrosianae. No. LXIII.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXXII, number CC, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 694:",
"text": "By this time the mouth begins to feel uneasy—I pick another cheroot from Cotton’s last box, and walk up and down reverie-ing as before.",
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"ref": "1869 June 12, Frances Ridley Havergal, “(1861—1869.) […]”, in M[aria] V[ernon] G[raham] H[avergal], editor, Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal, London: James Nisbet & Co., […], published 1880, pages 97–98:",
"text": "So now the dream of all my life is realized, and I have seen snow mountains! When I was quite a little child of eight years old I used to reverie about them, and when I heard the name of the snow-covered Sierra de la Summa Paz (perfect peace) the idea was completed; and I thenceforth always thought of eternal snow and perfect peace together, and longed to see the one and drink in the other.",
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"ref": "1920, W[alter] F[ranklin] Robie, “A Sexual Autobiography”, in Sex and Life: What the Experienced Should Teach and What the Inexperienced Should Learn, Boston, Mass.: Richard G[orham] Badger, The Gorham Press, part I, section “Love Reverie and Sex Imagery; Sex Education”, page 70:",
"text": "During my twelfth and thirteenth years I often reveried in school, or less often at night, with penis quite erect—imagining perhaps myself in company with several of the girls that most attracted me on a Pacific Island, and I would feel and see myself again and again in sexual intercourse.",
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"ref": "1936 March, Elmer D. Johnson, “Soliloquy on a Forgotten Town: What Will Become of It?”, in Charles A. Poe, editor, The Carolina Magazine, volume LXV, number 6, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Publications Union Board of the University of North Carolina, page twenty-seven, column 1:",
"text": "In her old days she’ll either be Madame Representativewoman from the same said X-town, or a cheerful old philanderer, pardon me, I mean philanthropist, living in seclusion and reverying in the shades of the past.",
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"ref": "1980, Peter Van Greenaway, The Dissident: A Novel (Gollancz Suspense), London: Gollancz, →ISBN:",
"text": "He reveried on.",
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}
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