waketh

Rouses from slumber

Waketh is an archaic third-person singular form of wake, using the -eth ending that marked this verb form in Early Modern English: He waketh from his slumber.

The form appears in the King James Bible and other period texts, now encountered mainly in religious or deliberately antiquated contexts.

dawn

morning

Day's early hours

sunriseMorning light's arrival
daybreakMorning's first light
cockcrowDawn, announced by fowl

sunup · aurora · light · horizon · morn · early · newness · freshness · beginning · matins

archaic

rouse

Stir to wakefulness

stirMix by circling
ariseCome into being
bestirRouse to action

rise · arouse · kindle · quicken · revive · animate · enliven · invigorate · thou · hast

consciousness

alertness

Active mental awareness

awarenessState of perceiving reality
vigilanceState of keen awareness
attentivenessConcentrated awareness of surroundings

watchfulness · perception · lucidity · cognizance · clarity · sharpness · readiness · keenness · stirring · rousing

spiritual

enlightenment

Profound spiritual awakening

epiphanySudden profound insight
revelationSurprising disclosed truth
satoriSudden spiritual awakening

illumination · rebirth · renewal · transformation · resurrection · quickening

Opposites

consciousness state

wakethsleepeth

Old English for dozes

sleep · slumber · doze · drowse · nap

Phrases

wake upBecome conscious again
wake-up callJolt into awareness
wake up callAlert that demands attention
in the wake ofOccurring after and because
wake up and smell the coffeeRecognize the actual situation
wake me up

Family

wake, wakes, waked, wakeful, wakefulness, awake, awakes, awaken, awakens

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