Dawning
['dɔ:niŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dawn
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Daybreak, dawn.[2]. Beginning, first appearance.
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Examples
- Wednesday morning was dawning when I looked out of window. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There may be an opening for him dawning now, or there may be none. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The sky was without a cloud, and the dawning mystery of moonlight began to tremble already in the region of the eastern heaven. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Day was dawning when they again emerged. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In this way he was taking a most vital part in the progress of those new economic ideas that were dawning into consciousness toward the close of the eighteenth century. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Not that, at leaSt.' She saw, by the dawning look on Loerke's face, that he had understood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The prim man was just beginning to have a dawning recollection of the story he had forgotten. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The dawnings, the first developments of peculiar talent appearing within his range, and under his rule, curiously excited, even disturbed him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Especially precious are the first dawnings of power. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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