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adj. 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.

n. A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

v. Present participle of awake.

adj. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting

n. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

n. The act of awaking from sleep.

n. An arousing from what is like sleep; a revival of interest in, or attention to, what has been neglected.

n. Especially A revival of religion, either in an individual or in a community: a use of the word derived from the Scripture symbol of sin as death or sleep, and conversion as resurrection or awakening.

Rousing; alarming: as, an awakening sermon.

n. the act of waking

"In both cases the awakening is a touching of the soul towards something beyond the person's own scale of reference, a conversion to outsized realities which, before the dawn of the poem, remained numbed in familiarity, in repression, in security."

rousing    arousal   

the great awakening   

reveille   

exciting   

awaken   

reawakening