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wakening, vbl. n.|ˈweɪk(ə)nɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
The action of the verb waken; a rousing or being roused from sleep, torpor, etc.
c1400Destr. Troy 8431 At hir wakonyng. c1440Bone Flor. 1660 A sorowfull wakenyng had sche thore. 1677Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. iii. V. 263 Threatenings..to give the petitioner and his familie ane hott walkening. a1796Burns ‘Jockey's ta'en the parting kiss’ iii, Sweetly blithe his waukening be! 1827Keble Chr. Y., Morning vi, New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xxv, Her first wakening to the knowledge that Margaret was gone. 1913J. H. Morrison On Trail of Pioneers xxiii. 112 The wakening of China was quickened by a generation.
b. Scots Law. (See waken v. 6.)
1584in Littlejohn Aberd. Sheriff Crt. (1904) Introd. 44 This day being assignit be ane walkining to pronunce Interloquitor in the said caus. 1608Melrose Regality Rec. (S.H.S.) I. 62 Lawrence Scott..producit ane precept of wakning aganis the haill persons, fewaris, [etc.]. 1765–8Erskine Inst. Law Scot. iv. i. §62 Consequently the decree may be extracted, after the year is elapsed, without the necessity of a wakening. 1868Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 100 §95 It shall be competent for any of the parties..to lodge a minute craving a wakening of the cause. |