wakening

American  

[wey-kuh-ning] / ˈweɪ kə nɪŋ /

noun

1. awakening.

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

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Other Word Forms

• unwakening adjective

Etymology

Origin of wakening

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

Example Sentences

And then I realized it was just my brain and my ears wakening up again to “this is what a theater sounds like.”

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2021

"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.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2021

“It’s certainly some from new ownership. And it’s certainly from a wakening up from the league governance side; that you can’t keep doing things the way they were doing it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2018

It’s a flash filled with a wakening, amused awareness that whatever Mr. Ryan’s characters are seeing at that moment might hold previously undetected potential — for diversion, for intrigue, for excitement.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015

Now the fog burned away, the mist level lowered until she was deposited upon the shore of wakening.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury