Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a wakeful manner; with watching or sleeplessness.
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- adverb In a
wakeful manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Right in between being awake and falling asleep there is that weird time where our brains wander in directions we never could imagine wakefully wandering without chemical aid.
seattle-rain Diary Entry seattle-rain 2009
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The beauty of dismal gloom is in she who holds hopes highest, patiently wakefully waiting, noticing all of life's truths, anticipating exclamations of joy.
Madison, dreary today... Ann Althouse 2009
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He should have a lamp constantly burning in his bed-chamber during the night, and if wakefully disturbed, take
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As the breeze rose again, the sea began to murmur wakefully in the morning light.
Armadale 2003
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She wept wakefully all that night and the next morning, almost before dawn, when the streets were empty, a car drew up to the house and took Tony away.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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But when she returned to her own bed, it was to lie wakefully staring into the dark.
Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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Having slept during the second and the third divisions of the night, thinkest thou of religion and profit in the fourth division wakefully.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Having slept during the second and the third divisions of the night, thinkest thou of religion and profit in the fourth division wakefully.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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And they lived in that place for one year, protecting themselves from Purochana very wakefully.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The butler watched at the door, wakefully anxious to earn the crown I had promised him.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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