Arousing vs Rouse - What's the difference?
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(rare) An act or occurrence in which something is aroused
* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Will Levington Comfort, title=Fate Knocks at the Door, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings , mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Anna Bishop Scofield, title=Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul, chapter=, edition=2nd ed.
, passage=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. }}
an arousal
(military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .
to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
* Atterbury
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
* Milton
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
an official ceremony over drinks
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
* Tennyson
wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
As verbs the difference between arousing and rouse
is that arousing is present participle of lang=en while rouse is to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.As nouns the difference between arousing and rouse
is that arousing is an act or occurrence in which something is aroused while rouse is an arousal.As an adjective arousing
is that or who arouses or arouse.As a proper noun Rouse is
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rouse
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.Alternative forms
* rouze (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(rous)- to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
- to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
- Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .
- Morpheus rouses from his bed.
- Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.
- to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
- Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
- Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
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Etymology 2
From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".Noun
(en noun)- And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
- Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.