Wakening

vbl. sb. [-ING².] The action of the verb WAKEN; a rousing or being roused from sleep, torpor, etc.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 8431. At hir wakonyng.

c. 1440.  Bone Flor., 1660. A sorowfull wakenyng had sche thore.

1677.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., Ser. III. V. 263. Threatenings … to give the petitioner and his familie ane hott walkening.

a. 1796.  Burns, ‘Jockey’s ta’en the parting kiss,‘ iii. Sweetly blithe his waukening be!

1827.  Keble, Chr. Y., Morning, vi. New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove.

1856.  Miss Yonge, Daisy Chain, II. xxv. Her first wakening to the knowledge that Margaret was gone.

1913.  J. H. Morrison, On Trail of Pioneers, xxiii. 112. The wakening of China was quickened by a generation.

  b.  Scots Law. (See WAKEN v. 6.)

1584.  in Littlejohn, Aberd. Sheriff Crt. (1904), Introd. 44. This day being assignit be ane walkining to pronunce Interloquitor in the said caus.

1608.  Melrose, Regality Rec. (S.H.S.), I. 62. Lawrence Scott … producit ane precept of wakning aganis the haill persons, fewaris, [etc.].

1765–8.  Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., IV. i. § 62. Consequently the decree may be extracted, after the year is elapsed, without the necessity of a wakening.

1868.  Act 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.