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Great Awakening

noun

  1. the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Great Awakening1

An Americanism dating back to 1730–40
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Example Sentences

America has long been the incubator of many spiritual creeds going back to the Great Awakening and even earlier.

The Second Great Awakening had a strong run for about 30 years at the beginning of the 19th century.

The first of these accounts expresses the great awakening of southern womanhood in the new activity of the "beloved southland."

We have carefully and tearfully laid their bodies in the grave to slumber till the great awakening morning.

But the revival of 1740, known as the Great Awakening, had prepared the way for it.

It was a great awakening, well remembered yet in the neighborhood.

There is a great awakening in this place; thirty of the young women are preciously visited.

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