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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

... not with any disposition towards cold or conscious criticism, but in order that she might better understand the conditions of her own life. She also had a wakening curiosity to know just what her mother was to her father and he to her. The hope was forming that she could make them more to each other. She had too much tact to believe that this could be done by general exhortations. If anything was ...

— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe

... so clever of him that he could scarcely resist wakening her to hear her say, "Oh, Peter, how exquisitely you play." However, as she now seemed comfortable, he again cast looks at the window. You must not think that he meditated flying away and never coming back. He had quite ...

— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

... scene rested the tired woman. She stood absorbed, without noticing that the door behind her was opened swiftly and that some one came in. It was only when the baby, wakening, sat up in bed and asked with wide, wondering eyes, "Who is that?" that she turned ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... our ankles, we wonder what the world would be like if this were all. Could the human race be acclimatised to this monotony (we say) perhaps emotion would be rarer, yet more poignant, suspended brooding on itself, and wakening by flashes to a quintessential mood. Then fancy changes, and the thought occurs that even so must be a planet, not yet wholly made, nor called to take her place among the sisterhood ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... compliance with the Mohawks might win him a chance to escape; so he was the first to arise in the morning, wakening the others and urging them that it was time to break camp. The stolid Indians were not to be moved by an audacious white boy. Watching the young prisoner, the keepers lay still, feigning sleep. Radisson rose. They ...

— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut

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