Awakening
[ə'weɪkənɪŋ] or [ə'wekənɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of waking; 'it was an early awakening'; 'it was the waking up he hated most'.
Checked by Emil--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Awaken
(a.) Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.
(n.) The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
Checker: Terrance
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Revival.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- What with loss of sleep, arduous exercise, and a full belly, Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around, awakening about noon of the following day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A plan may come with our awakening. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The awakening was almost feline in its stealthiness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He is an awakening man; he ought to see Miss Crawley before she rests this night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This graver world of 1920 does seem to be awakening to the truth that there are realities worth seeking and evils not to be tolerated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their voices had instinctively dropped lower, though at first they had taken no particular care to avoid awakening Clym. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We say it is a moral awakening. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Do not deceive me, by awakening hopes that are not to be fulfilled. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Several of the pleasure-car manufacturers took advantage of the awakening interest and added a commercial vehicle section to their plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I have to thank these pages for awakening the finest sensibilities in my nature--nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Death, waste, hunger, and disease are very rife to-day; the world is full of physical evils, but there is this mental awakening to set against them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The month of March arrived, and the heath showed its first signs of awakening from winter trance. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Before the shades of evening had closed around us, I had a dozen awakening letters for my aunt, instead of a dozen awakening books. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To the invention of wood-working machinery we are also indebted for the awakening of interest in the qualities of wood for a vast number of artistic purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- That forces exist to-day which carry with them solutions is evident to anyone who has watched the labor movement and the woman's awakening. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These violent awakenings must have been annoying to Oliver, but he never complained. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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