awakening
- Adjective. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.
- Noun. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
- Noun. (religion) A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
- Verb. (present participle of, awake) .
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