Day-dawn

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(archaic) The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises..

Example Sentences

1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52, […] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath.

At day-dawn I looked thro’ the key-hole of my Beloved’s door.

For like a day-dawn she was young and pure,

Full many a score that lone maid counted o’er Of day-dawns and night-falls—a year to the day—

Before day-dawn, Judge Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind them, and informed of the great news.

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• day-dawns

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