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dawning

noun
/ˈdɔːnɪŋ/UK/ˈdɑːnɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English dawnynge, an alteration of dawing, under the influence of North Germanic cognates (compare Swedish, Danish dagning). See daw (“to dawn”).

  1. inherited from dawnynge

Definitions

  1. Dawn.

    • […] 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.
    • 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; […]

  2. The first beginnings of something.

  3. present participle and gerund of dawn

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA