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English
Etymology
From day + rise.
Noun
dayrise (countable and uncountable, plural dayrises)
- (poetic) daybreak, dawn
- 1839, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "The Sisters.", The Poetical Works of Miss Landon, publ. by E.L. Carey and A. Hart, pg. 225:
- 'Twas a fair sight to see her glide
- A constant shadow by the side
- Of her old Father ! At dayrise,
- With light feet and with sunny eyes,
- 1917, Hermann Hagedorn, "The Spirit of Preparedness," Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, National Security League, Washington, D.C., January 25-27, 1917, pg. 138:
- Compared to such sentimentalism that dream of the million men rising up at the President's call between dayrise and dayfall appears like grim realism.
2008, Barry Lopez, “Bear in the Road,”, in The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie, Annick Smith and Susan O'Connor, eds., University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 57:We ate without talking and watched dayrise through frost-rimmed glass in the double-hung window.
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