Their present condition is one of dormancy.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
That is a sign of the absence, or at least of the dormancy, of the Comic idea.
"The Short Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
Married, before she had begun the bitter knowledge of herself, to a man whom it was impossible to love, yet deriving from nature a tenderness of soul, which shed itself over everything around, her only escape from misery had been in the dormancy of feeling.
"Falkland, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton