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present participle and gerund of arouse examples
comparative more arousing, superlative most arousing
Causing arousal. examples
plural arousings
(rare) An act or occurrence in which something is aroused quotations
There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings, mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy.
1912, Will Levington Comfort, Fate Knocks at the Door
These excursions of the soul into the realm of matter, thus made by and through the offices of clairvoyants and seers, the repeated arousings of the ego from its contented sleep are finally highly educational, and result in resurrecting the forces of the enfranchised being, and setting them in motion on the lines of useful work for humanity.
1913, Anna Bishop Scofield, Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul, 2nd edition