[f. AWAKEN + -MENT; the Romance suffix being here used with a Teutonic verb.] An awakening.
1842. Gresley, For. Arden, 9. The general awakenment of learning and civilisation.
1862. D. Simon, trans. Dorner’s Pers. Christ, II. I. 276. The awakenment of a lively feeling of need.
1871. Farrar, Witn. Hist., i. 7. A happy awakenment to life and energy.
