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noun

Revery, Reverie n. (pl. reveries)

A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." "When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it."

An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. (R.) "There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both (wise and foolish minds)."

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Etymology of 'Reverie'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reverie" Quotes from Famous Books

... looking at the picture, and secretly wondering how any person with such a face could bear to see it transferred to canvas, she was suddenly roused from her reverie by the pressure of a heavy hand upon her shoulder, and a gentleman in a very gruff, but by no means an ill-natured or ...

— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie

... barbaric splendour, have long presented to my fancy the glowing and ever-shifting combinations upon which, as on the red embers, in a winter's gloaming, I love to gaze, propping my white head upon my hand, in a lazy luxury of reverie, from my own arm-chair, while they drop, ever and anon, into new shapes, and silently tell ...

— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... from his reverie by the clatter of approaching hoofs. He looked forward and saw a young fellow galloping ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various

... also be considered, a history of the police force in every large town in England. When I had ended these papers, I did not feel disposed to read any others at that time, but preferred falling into a train of reverie and recollection. ...

— The Grey Woman and other Tales • Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell

... one of them forth. The minutes passed, and Wetherell began to hate him. Then some one tried the door, peered in through the glass, perceived Jethro, shook the knob, knocked violently, all to no purpose. Jethro seemed lost in a reverie. ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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