reawakening

alternative re-awakening

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of reawaken

plural reawakenings · alternative re-awakening

1. A second or subsequent awakening.

   The reawakening was brought about by Gwendolen’s inviting the artist to stay to dinner.

   1893, Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemen, The American Claimant, P. F Collier and Son Company, page 183

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   Our longings after immortality are sensibly experienced under the solemn views of dissolving nature, and its reawakening at the call of the angel, when this corruptible shall put on incorruptibility, and this mortal immortality, and death, to the sons and daughters of resignation shall be swallowed up in victory.

   1807, Rosewell Messinger, Sentiments on Resignation, P. F Collier and Son Company, page 224

   In several of these patients, who previously had been treated by curetting and lactic acid, and who had been considered as cured, the injection of one or two milligrammes showed that this was not the case, and caused a reawakening of the disease.

   1891, Massachusetts Medical Society, The New England Journal of Medicine, Samuel Squiee Speigge, page 3

   It is my belief that the constant use of this water, and the proximity to the unwholesome lagoon, would, in a short time, have resulted in evil to the command, although during our stay butfew cases of sickness were encountered. Several cases of malarial fever were developed, but the history of each case proved it to be the result of a reawakening of a former infection.

   1889, United States Surgeon-General's Office, Report of the Surgeon-General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Tear Ending, Government Printing Office, page 49

   But is not this partly due to a kind of reawakening of the mind by the altered, and doubtless improved, social surroundings?

   1919, Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown, The Lancet, Samuel Squiee Speigge, page 250