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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

... Broadhursts!' said his mother, wakening him, as she passed by, to receive them as they entered. Miss Broadhurst appeared, plainly dressed—plainly, even to singularity—without ...

— The Absentee • Maria Edgeworth

... phial of morphia, drew the little sofa nearer to the fireplace and extended herself upon it. The daylight faded from the sky and night came, and with the night came sleep—a sleep whose dream was of Eternity, and whose wakening light would be the dawn of ...

— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.

... thinking of the mines when I said he did good work," said her companion, and after a pause, "I think it is time we were getting into our car. I would not like the train to pull out without us. Look at the babies! Both asleep. Perhaps I can move them without wakening them." But already Elizabeth had taken up the baby in her arms and was at the step of the car. As she waited for a trainman to help her on, she caught bits of the conversation between two men who stood on the rear platform of the smoker. They had been discussing the "coal-fields", ...

— Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall • Jean K. Baird

... rising from Tithonus' saffron couch, The Goddess of the dawn with orient ray Sprinkled the earth, and 'neath the wakening touch Of sunlight, all things stand revealed to-day. Turnus himself, accoutred for the fray, Wakes up his warriors with the morning light. At once each captain marshals in array His company, in brazen arms bedight, And rumours whet their rage, and ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil

... apparent 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 made no protest. He wandered casually down to the ...

— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut

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