Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slumber.
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Examples
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The voice was sonorous, deep, slow, a chanting, "dovening" (praying) rhythm, which I began to interpret as a head Rabbi teaching others to become and sing like Rabbis.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1 2008
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The voice was sonorous, deep, slow, a chanting, "dovening" (praying) rhythm, which I began to interpret as a head Rabbi teaching others to become and sing like Rabbis.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1 2006
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Several members always end up moaning and thudding their foreheads on the table in the 'dovening for democracy' portion of the evening.
Kate Clinton: Gender Card -- Poke Her -- Old Maid -- War 2008
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The dovening and mumbled prayers in Hebrew filled the cave like the buzzing of bees.
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I noticed that I wasn't the only woman dovening (praying) on the bus.
me-ander 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word dovening
"Several members always end up moaning and thudding their foreheads on the table in the 'dovening for democracy' portion of the evening."
"I noticed that I wasn't the only woman dovening (praying) on the bus."
The quotes (above) suggest that dovening is praying, whereas the definition refers to it as a slumber. Maybe it is praying while sleeping?
February 5, 2021