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awakening Definition

awak·en·ing (-iŋ)

noun, adjective

  1. (a) waking up
  2. (an) arousing or reviving, as of impulses, religion, etc.

awakening Idioms

the Great Awakening

a movement of religious revival in the American Colonies from c. 1720 to the time of the Revolution

awakening Synonyms

awakening

n.

rebirth, arousal, renewal; see revival 1.

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.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile

The poet knowshimselfonlyonthe conditionthatthings resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, theyand he come forth together out of sleep.

—Maritain,Jacques

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