Spotted in #Xmen c1966: "shall waken". We can suppose this in variation with "awaken" and take into account #style to an extent if we compare only when preceded by "shall". Unsurprisingly, "awaken" has always been more common in American #literature when #intransitive (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shall+waken%2Cshall+awaken&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3), although these sort of pairs where the standard #transitive version is used intransitively could be interesting to look at further

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