wakening

[wey-kuh-ning]

noun

1. awakening.

2. Scots Law.,  a revival of a legal action or the process by which this is done.

Other Word Forms

• unwakening adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of wakening¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; waken, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature.

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All these wakening giants will be more ready to act if they can see their rich counterparts put their finance where their words are.

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"My mummy went to pieces, we all went to pieces, it was like a nightmare you were never wakening from, we just found it so hard to cope," Ms McCarry said.

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"And then I only remember wakening up 30 days later, unaware of what the family had been through."

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“It’s a good wakening call for a lot of businesses.”

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