Arouse or rouse?
Rouse and arouse are both used in formal contexts. Arouse means ‘make someone have a particular feeling’: …

rouse | American Dictionary

rouse
verb[ T ]
us/rɑʊz/
to wake someone or make someone more active or excited:
She roused him from his sleep.

Examples of rouse

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Pretenders to power were unable to call upon the idioms of class, ethnicity or even religion to rouse popular movements in their support.
Perhaps we would like to have a clearer and more polemically rousing conclusion, but this mixed one certainly seems the most likely.
She is naturally trying to rouse him from his self-pity, but she is also losing sight of the defects that protect against idolatry.
The commentators' assessments as to how we succeeded are very diverse and vigorous, attesting to the power of these words to rouse scientific didacticism.
It is an epoch which, not least for this reason, exerts continual aesthetic fascination and is gradually beginning to rouse historic interest.
Fall comes to us as a prize to rouse us toward our fate.
Music can be a vessel for texts and ideas, and can rouse people to action when they are otherwise reluctant.
We are, if we are wise, reluctant to rouse these feelings.
These did not rouse the ire of churchmen because they did not claim to be truth even though they might serve to inspire the devout.
He stepped up his efforts to rouse potential supporters of repeal.
Learning experiences largely determine whether observers will be roused or unmoved by the emotional expressions of others.
A din song roused, good nuns raised, sad rousing done.
Each issue rouses my ire and gives me succor.
It is not a rousing political economy that fits every piece of the human puzzle reassuringly into its omnibus.
Clerical celibacy remained unreformed but, by its nature, was a practice which could rouse little ire amongst the laity.
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