awakening 
awakening
Definition
awak·en·ing (-iŋ)
noun, adjective
- (a) waking up
- (an) arousing or reviving, as of impulses, religion, etc.
the Great Awakening
☆a movement of religious revival in the American Colonies from c. 1720 to the time of the Revolution
awakening
Synonyms
awakening
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- bring: The opening of these will quickly bring the awakening of your latent psychic abilities.
- experience: Then experience the awakening of the tree in the spring.
- receive: On 6th March of this year, the sleepy world of Dutch politics received a rude awakening.
- get: Instead you get the awakening inside a castle, followed by tutorial session.
- see: Then I saw an all-out awakening, followed by the second coming of Christ.
- have: In 1995, she had a spiritual awakening with an Angel.
Preposition: as
- result: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we must try to carry this message on to other MHM addicts.
Adjective modifier
- rude: There was to be a rude awakening, however, for all at Elland Road.
- spiritual: A spiritual awakening two years ago opened the way for seeing the world through new eyes.
- sexual: An uncomfortable tale of sexual awakening, A Ma Soeur!
- spontaneous: Here, the parent gently arouses the child about 30 minutes before the typical spontaneous awakening, and consoles their charge.
- sudden: Sudden awakening, fright or sorcery may separate soul from body for ever.
- false: In a parallel survey of 224 first year university students, I found that 83 % claimed to have had a false awakening.
Noun used with modifier
- morning: Current revision A few words mid this morning awakening.
- difficulty: The symptom of difficulty awakening is consistent with the phase delay hypothesis of SAD.
Possessives
- mankind: The story of mankind's spiritual awakening, and of the part we play in it. © Kit Constable Maxwell 16.
Preposition: of
- consciousness: Imperialism itself contributed to the awakening of national consciousness.
- interest: This was a circumstance highly favorable to the awakening of an interest in Divine things.
- people: Shortly thereafter I wrote a long essay, under the pseudonym R Mettler, criticizing Tabata's book The Awakening of a People.
Preposition: from
- dream: Globalization is the fitful, haunted awakening from that dream.
awakening Quotes
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
The poet knowshimselfonlyonthe conditionthatthings resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, theyand he come forth together out of sleep.
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