day-dawn

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Noun

day-dawn (countable and uncountable, plural day-dawns)

(archaic) The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises.
Synonym: dawn
- 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.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume V, London: S Richardson; , →OCLC, page 247:
  At day-dawn I looked thro’ the key-hole of my Beloved’s door.
- 1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: for John Hunt, , →OCLC, canto XII, stanza 41, page 13:
  For like a day-dawn she was young and pure,
- 1850 May, Jonathan Freke Slingsby, “Welcome as Flowers in May”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 35, number 209, page 557:
  Full many a score that lone maid counted o’er
  Of day-dawns and night-falls—a year to the day—
- 1876, Mark Twain, chapter 32, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‎, Hartford: American Publishing Company, page 250:
  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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