[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. Rising as if from sleep.
1726. Thomson, Winter, 1043. Awakening nature hears … and starts to life.
1884. Harper’s Mag., Sept., 626/1. Awakening buds and blossoms.
2. Fitted to arouse; rousing.
1694. Kettlewell, Comp. Penitent, 44. Thy awakening Providences.
1736. Wesley, Wks. (1872), I. 42. The most awakening writer … of all the ancients.
1810. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 46. The awakening cock.
