Meanings of long torpor in English

He felt suddenly as if his spirit had awakened from a long torpor.

He awoke from a long torpor, heavy with fever and dreams.

After long torpor the prohibition of Lotteries showed that Parliament was waking to its moral duties.

It was the invigorating breath of a fresh outward atmosphere, after the long torpor and monotonous seclusion of her life.

And then the man's guilty conscience awakened from its long torpor, and, acting upon his excited imagination, conjured up a thousand frightful punishments awaiting him.