Great Awakening

American  

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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Etymology

Origin of Great Awakening

An Americanism dating back to 1730–40

Example Sentences

In the 19th century, after the Second Great Awakening, few traveled to the Holy Land.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There was a sense there’s a third Great Awakening”—referring to the series of seismic religious revivals in U.S. history—“that’s bursting upon us.”

From Slate

They claimed that this moment would eventually bring about a “Great Awakening,” a reference to the religious revivalist movements of the 18th and 19th centuries.

From Salon

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

“His book is, in part, a performance of culture, a mirror America complete with its own highly imagined myths, yet one still rooted in the Second Great Awakening and the country’s earliest literature. It’s a performance full of wit and rigor.”

From New York Times