ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1705. Atterbury, Serm., Luke xvi. 31 (1726), II. 57. Every day the Impression loses somewhat of its Force,… till at length it comes … to operate … faintly upon careless unawaken’d Minds.
1762. Wesley, Jrnl., 29 July (1827), III. 103. A harmless, unawakened … woman came to one of the meetings for prayer.
1819. Shelley, Ode West Wind, 68. Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy!
1860. W. L. Collins, Luck of Ladysmede (1862), I. 275. The eyes … in whose soft depths a mighty unawakened love had seemed always sleeping.
1899. Educ. Rev., Dec., 472. The dull and unawakened have their rights.
Hence Unawakenedness.
1879. Meredith, Egoist, x. Chewing the cud in the happy pastures of unawakenedness.
