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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of awaken.

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awaken +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • Let him lie, until of his own accord he awakeneth, — until of his own accord he repudiateth all weariness, and what weariness hath taught through him!

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • The gabble of geese is music to the goose; the hoot of the hoot-owl is lovlier to his mate than the nightingale's lay; the concert of Signor "Tomasso Cataleny" and Mademoiselle "Pussy" awakeneth the growling old bachelor from his dreams, and he throweth his boquets of bootjacks and superannuated foot gear.

    Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

  • Christians should so manage their time and the work that God hath appointed them to do for his name in this world, that they may not have part thereof to do when they should be departing this world; because, if they do not, dying will be a hard work with them, especially if God awakeneth them about their neglect of their duty.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • But the grunt of a pig or the crowing of a cock awakeneth him from, the soundest sleep, and he goeth forth until halted by the guard, when he instantly clappeth his hands upon his "bread-basket," and the guard, in commiseration, alloweth him to pass to the rear.

    Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

  • Before a virtue is begun to be practised, it is previously excited in a pure heart; for a pure heart awakeneth more virtues in love than all men can carry out in works.

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

  • It is the same who giveth sight to the blind that awakeneth the dead.

    The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin Grenville Kleiser 1910

  • Let him lie, until of his own accord he awakeneth, - until of his own accord he repudiateth all weariness, and what weariness hath taught through him!

    Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

  • Let him lie, until of his own accord he awakeneth, -- until of his own accord he repudiateth all weariness, and what weariness hath taught through him!

    Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • "Lady," said she, "thou hast said full well; but do it speedily, and haste thee ere he awakeneth."

    Old French Romances William Morris 1865

  • On the morrow awakeneth Gudrun; and she speaketh with Sigurd and saith:

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

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