1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme 1st Apologie to B. Tylcken 19 in tr. J. Böhme Remainder of Bks. Which when the Eternall fire of God moved it self, became desirous to have its re-awakening.

1774 J. W. Fletcher Zelotes & Honestus Reconciled ii. xiv. 180/2 [It] is a most dangerous and unscriptural doctrine, which cannot be pressed with too much assiduity and tenderness upon antinomian professors for their re-awakening and sanctification.

1818 L. Hunt Foliage Pref. 11 The consequence of this re-awakening of the poetical faculty is not, as some imagine, a contempt for Pope and the other chief writers of the French school.

1862 Q. Rev. Oct. 465 Some extreme views which have disfigured the great reawakening of the Church of England.

1937 Discovery May 148 The re-awakening of the Great Iceland Geyser.

1989 D. Judd Give Sorrow Words i. 14 Each rebirth or reawakening symbolizes the repeated reaching of a greater degree of maturity in the face of difficulty.

2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 Jan. (Goodlife section) 3/1 What Negri is referring to is the reawakening of senses dulled by packed, processed, pre-masticated ‘food products’.

1823 J. Wilson Trials Margaret Lyndsay xxxiii. 271 In a day or two it seemed as if Spring had made a fortnight's advance, when every thing had been removed that could impair..the fair spirit of reawakening life.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island xxxii. 270 There was no sign of re-awakening courage in his followers; rather, indeed, of growing terror at the irreverence of his words.

1930 Amer. Econ. Rev. 20 72 A reawakening interest in problems of theory has been evidenced in recent years.

1977 S. Kostof in S. Kostof et al. Architect (1986) 75 The relief and renewed faith poured into new construction, a fevered campaign of church-raising along pilgrimage routes and in the reawakening cities.

1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. iii. 677/2 The Nuba are..fighting back against a government programme of ethnocide with a reawakening identity.