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dawning
/ˈdɔːnɪŋ/
noun 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
awesome, cold, grey, new, new, outside, soon
VERB + DAWNING
breaking, matter
DAWNING + NOUN
birds, day, it'll, kabylity, s
PREP.
about, after, on
ADV.
already
Definitions
noun
1
Dawn.
Anone after cam the knyght with the two ſwerdes and balan his broder ⸝ and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym ⸝ & ſoo they two retorned ageyne in the daunyng of the day ⸝[…]
[…] he arose to make an excursion to the top of Arthur's Seat, to breathe the breeze of the dawning, and see the sun arise out of the eastern ocean.
2
The first beginnings of something.
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Anone after cam the knyght with the two ſwerdes and balan his broder ⸝ and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym ⸝ & ſoo they two re
Wiktionary02
[…] he arose to make an excursion to the top of Arthur's Seat, to breathe the breeze of the dawning, and see the sun arise out of the eastern ocean.
Wiktionary03
The City is of Night; perchance of Death, / But certainly of Night; for never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning’s cold grey air; […]
Wiktionary04
The truth of the matter is dawning on him.
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In the evening is twilight; in the morning the breaking and dawning of the day.
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As day was dawning and the birds were starting to sing, Tom at last arrived home.
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