Great Awakening
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Great Awakening
An Americanism dating back to 1730–40
Example Sentences
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In the 19th century, after the Second Great Awakening, few traveled to the Holy Land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The original Great Awakening was a series of 18th- and 19th-century religious revivals that swept through the American colonies and states, establishing evangelical Christianity as an enduring and powerful force in the country.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024
Mormonism was born through the spiritual quest of Joseph Smith, who was raised amid America's Second Great Awakening during the early 1800s, a period of Christian revivals.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2023
The concept has a history stretching back to at least the First Great Awakening in 18th-century New England, when crowds of newly fervent Protestants gathered to hear vivid extemporaneous sermons by pastors like Jonathan Edwards.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Remonstrances against the Great Awakening show also how men's minds were moving away from the theory of the universe which the theology of that movement implied.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
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