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ROUSING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of arousing
Example:
the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions
Synonyms:
arousal; rousing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rousing" is a kind of...):
change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rousing"):
awakening; wakening; waking up (the act of waking)
excitation; excitement (something that agitates and arouses)
incitation; incitement (an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating)
inflaming; inflammation (arousal to violent emotion)
inspiration; stirring (arousing to a particular emotion or action)
stimulation (the act of arousing an organism to action)
titillation (an agreeable arousal)
Derivation:
rouse (cause to be agitated, excited, or roused)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading
Example:
tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation
Classified under:
Similar:
provocative (serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement
Example:
stirring events such as wars and rescues
Synonyms:
rousing; stirring
Classified under:
Similar:
stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rouse
Context examples:
Now Aunt March possessed in perfection the art of rousing the spirit of opposition in the gentlest people, and enjoyed doing it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He sat really lost in thought for the first few minutes; and when rousing himself, it was only to say, Of all horrid things, leave-taking is the worst.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"Your doctrine certainly sounds like socialism," Mr. Morse replied, while Ruth gazed anxiously from one to the other, and Mrs. Morse beamed happily at the opportunity afforded of rousing her liege lord's antagonism.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
From a reverie of this kind she was recalled at the end of some minutes by Willoughby, who, rousing himself from a reverie at least equally painful, started up in preparation for going, and said—There is no use in staying here; I must be off.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But no matter, no matter! he said cheerfully, and rousing himself, there's time enough!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All day she lay so, only rousing now and then to mutter, "Water!" with lips so parched they could hardly shape the word.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Rousing from reflection, therefore, and subduing her emotion, she turned to Harriet again, and, in a more inviting accent, renewed the conversation; for as to the subject which had first introduced it, the wonderful story of Jane Fairfax, that was quite sunk and lost.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But SOMETIMES they are.—As she said this, she sunk into a reverie for a few moments;—but rousing herself again, Now, Edward, said she, calling his attention to the prospect, here is Barton valley.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
