Found 4 hits - Term: wakening, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wakening \wak"ening\, n.
1. the act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to
sleep; an awakening.
1913 webster
2. scots law the revival of an action. --burrill.
1913 webster
they were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of
the process against janet. --sir w.
scott.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
waken \wak"en\, v. i. imp. p. pr. wakened; p. pr. vb. n.
wakening. oe. waknen, as. waecnan; akin to goth.
gawaknan. see wake, v. i.
to wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
1913 webster
early, turnus wakening with the light. --dryden.
1913 webster
see also:
wakened wakening wake
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wakening
n : the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the
waking up he hated most" syn: awakening, waking up
see also:
awakening waking up
- [4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
wakening, scotch law. the revival of an action.
2. an action is said to sleep, when it lies over, not insisted on for a
year in which case it is suspended. 4, t. 1, n. 33. with us a revival is by
scire facias. q.v.
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