wakening's Usage Examples:

The decades preceding the "Great Awakening" of 1740-1743 were a time of religious declension.

Scientific zoology really started in the 16th century with the awakening of the new spirit of observation and exploration, but for a long time ran a separate course uninfluenced by the progress of the medical studies of anatomy and physiology.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.

The scent of lilacs filled the air and in the woods, white dog­wood stood in stark contrast against the multi shades of green wakening to spring.

During the winter these animals retire to their burrows, sleeping the greater part of the time, but awakening about February or March, when they feed on the garnered grain.

"He considers " bodily effects " incidentals to the real work of God, but his own mystic devotion and the experiences of his wife during the Awakening (which he gives in detail) make him think that the divine visitation usually overpowers the body, a view in support of which he quotes Scripture.

The First Church, Newport, had been rent asunder by Arminianism, and the nominally Calvinistic remnant had itself become divided on the question of the laying on of hands and showed no sympathy with the Great Awakening.

Insomnia: Difficulty falling asleep and remaining asleep, or early-morning awakenings.

And with the decision and tenderness that often come at the moment of awakening, she embraced her friend, but noticing Sonya's look of embarrassment, her own face expressed confusion and suspicion.

He had not to deal with the opposition of a recalcitrant monk, but with the awakening of a nation.

Some separatist churches were formed as a result of the Awakening; these either died out or became Baptist congregations.

of England), rallied his subjects round the oriflamme of St Denis, awakening throughout northern France the unanimous and novel sentiment of national danger.

In this period of degeneracy there were none the less an awakening to religious needs and a profound longing for a new revelation of truth, which should satisfy at once the intellect and the religious emotions.

Synonyms:

reveille, rousing, arousal, awakening, waking up,

Antonyms:

unprovocative, unstimulating,