awakening vs early

awakening

adj
  • Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting 

noun
  • A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. 

  • The act of becoming aware of something. 

  • Being roused into action or activity. 

  • The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. 

early

adj
  • Near the start of the day. 

  • Near the start or beginning. 

  • Having begun to occur; in its early stages. 

  • At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. 

  • Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. 

  • Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun. 

adv
  • At a time before expected; sooner than usual. 

  • Soon; in good time; seasonably. 

noun
  • A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day. 

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