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verb

Waken v. t.

To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken. "Go, waken Eve."

To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken. "Then Homer's and Tyrtaeus' martial muse Wakened the world." "Venus now wakes, and wakens love." "They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high."

Waken v. i. (past & past part. wakened; pres. part. wakening) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. "Early, Turnus wakening with the light."

noun

Wakening n.

The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.

(Scots Law) The revival of an action. "They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet."

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Etymology of 'Wakening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wakening" Quotes from Famous Books

... are spinning all day long; To her wakening sense the first sweet warning Of daylight come is the cheerful song To the hum of the wheel in the early morning. Benjie, the gentle, red-cheeked boy. On his way to school, peeps in at the gate; In neat white ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

... broken Your bond of peace, your treaty with the King— Wakening such brawls and loud disturbances In England, that he calls you oversea To answer for it in his ...

— Becket and other plays • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... Mason and Sandersen got back to Sour Creek. The gathering of the posse had required much time. Now, as they filed out to the hotel, to the east the mountains were beginning to roll up out of the night, and one cloud, far away and high in the sky, was turning pink. They found the hotel wakening even at this early hour. At least, the Chinese cook was rattling in the kitchen as he built the fire. When the six reached the door of Sinclair's room, stepping lightly, they heard the ...

— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand

... and did wake, for I had set my spirit hard unto such wakening; yet was I still greatly yearning for sleep. But this did go somewhat, when that I had fought a little with my need. And afterward, I eat two of the tablets, and drank some of the water, and did gat my gear upon me, and was presently down unto the Gorge; and so again ...

— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

... that way should receive hospitality from the convent. Certainly no place more fitted for devotion could have been selected than this mountain retreat; and when the convent bell tolled at evening, calling the monks to prayer, and wakening the echoes of the silent hills, its deep notes must have been all in unison ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca

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