awaken vs bethink

awaken

verb
  • To cause to become aware. 

  • To call to a sense of sin. 

  • To cause to become awake. 

  • To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. 

  • To stop sleeping; awake. 

bethink

verb
  • To think of (something or somebody) or that (followed by clause); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon. 

  • To meditate, ponder; to consider. 

  • To determine, resolve. 

How often have the words awaken and bethink occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )