Lexic.us

Definition of Dawning

1. Noun. The first light of day. "They talked until morning"

Definition of Dawning

1. Noun. (context: now chiefly poetic) Dawn. ¹

2. Noun. The first beginnings of something. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of dawn) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dawning

1. dawn [v] - See also: dawn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dawning

Literary usage of Dawning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"THE dawning OF THE DAY TT^WAS T« a balmy summer morning. Warm and early, Such as only June bestows; Everywhere the earth adorning, Dews lay pearly In the ..."

2. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"As on by bower, and town, and tower, And widespread fields I stray, I meet a maid in the greenwood shade At the dawning of the day. ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"The struggling Sun lies hid, whose dawning light Beneath their gloom, ... Before his dawning glories, Envy fled ; Mid wastes and wilds o'ergrown with ..."

4. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"THE dawning O' THE YEAR ALL ye who love the springtime — and who but loves it well When the little birds do sing, and the buds begin to swell! ..."

5. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"THE dawning OF THE DAY' From the Irish AT early dawn I once had been Where Lene's blue waters flow, When summer bid the groves be green, The lamp of light ..."

6. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"THE dawning O' THE YEAR. All ye who love the springtime—and who but loves it well When the ... Till ye look upon old Ireland in the dawning <i' the year! ..."

7. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"The first dawning of real discipline comes through work. At a given moment it happens that a child becomes keenly interested in a piece of work, ..."

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