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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wakening \Wak"en*ing\, n.
1. The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to
sleep; an awakening.
2. (Scots Law) The revival of an action --Burrill.
They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of
the process against Janet. --Sir W.
Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waken \Wak"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. pr {Wakened}; p. pr & vb n.
{Wakening}.] [OE. waknen, AS w[ae]cnan; akin to Goth.
gawaknan See {Wake}, v. i.]
To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Early, Turnus wakening with the light. --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wakening
n : the act of waking; "it was a rude awakening"; "it was the
waking up he hated most" [syn: {awakening}, {waking up}]
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