Definition of "awakening" []

• Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. (adjective)
• The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. (noun)
• A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. (noun)
• Present participle of awake. (verb)

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• "In both cases the awakening is a touching of the soul towards something beyond the person's own scale of reference, a conversion to outsized realities which, before the dawn of the poem, remained numbed in familiarity, in repression, in security."
• "In 1990, he had what he describes as his "awakening", when a psychic in Brighton told him that he was a healer, placed on Earth for a purpose."
• "As quoted, it did sound like a late-in-term awakening on America’s wars."