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  • noun Plural form of awakener.

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Examples

  • We may even see the development of graduate programs for awakeners.

    Awakener; My Occupation. And yours? 2008

  • It's part of the process we awakeners engage in as WE wake up further.

    Printing: Awakener; My Occupation. And yours? 2008

  • It's part of the process we awakeners engage in as WE wake up further.

    Awakener; My Occupation. And yours? 2008

  • We may even see the development of graduate programs for awakeners.

    Printing: Awakener; My Occupation. And yours? 2008

  • Readiness of talent, a capacity of entering into, and leading the dispositions of men; earnest desire of distinction were the awakeners and nurses of his ambition.

    The Last Man 2003

  • I bless the Lord, that hath honored you of this county to be the beginners and awakeners of the nation to this duty.

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • For it is an existential fact, well recognized by the Czechoslovakian historians of the nineteenth century, such as Palacky, who were also the awakeners of Czechoslovakian nationalism, that Czechoslovakia, unable to stand alone, had to lean on one or the other of its powerful neighbors to the East and to the West.

    Inquisition in Czechoslovakia Morgenthau, Hans J. 1969

  • How important, therefore, are the suggestions that may serve as such awakeners; how necessary to bring forward the useful, and to banish the injurious ones!

    A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick

  • They were the awakeners of a new intellectual life; not only the stimulators of an emotional pietism always prone to run into religious intoxication and extravagance.

    The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868

  • Murmurs of the dark, sources and awakeners of sublime imagination, swell from afar.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Various 1840

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