Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which wakens or rouses from sleep, or as from sleep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who wakens.
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- noun One who
wakens .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They also put down a black dainty called, they say, caviar, and made of the eggs of fish, a great thirst – wakener.
Don Quixote 2002
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It acts as a stimulus or wakener to the old ideas sleeping beneath the surface.
The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Charles Alexander McMurry 1893
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'You're not obliged to adore it to give it a wakener.
Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868
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'You're not obliged to adore it to give it a wakener.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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'You're not obliged to adore it to give it a wakener.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Light as ever on his pins, he now and then varied his attentions to the yeasty part, delivering a wakener in unexpected quarters: masterly as the skilled cook's carving of a joint with hungry guests for admirers.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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Light as ever on his pins, he now and then varied his attentions to the yeasty part, delivering a wakener in unexpected quarters: masterly as the skilled cook's carving of a joint with hungry guests for admirers.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Light as ever on his pins, he now and then varied his attentions to the yeasty part, delivering a wakener in unexpected quarters: masterly as the skilled cook's carving of a joint with hungry guests for admirers.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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For if he steale out the nature of a quick person, it cannot be so quicklie carryed, but it will both tine the strength and heate by the way, which it could neuer haue had for lacke of agitation, which in the time of procreation is the procurer & wakener vp of these two natural qualities.
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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They also put down a black dainty called, they say, caviar, and made of the eggs of fish, a great thirst-wakener.
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581
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