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Dawing vs Dawning - What's the difference?

dawing | dawning |

As verbs the difference between dawing and dawning

is that dawing is present participle of daw while dawning is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between dawing and dawning

is that dawing is dawn, daybreak while dawning is dawn.

dawing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Dawn, daybreak.

    • Anagrams

    *

    dawning

    English

    Alternative forms

    * daunyng

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • * 1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night)
    • never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning' s cold grey air
  • The first beginnings of something.
  • *1995 , (Pinky and the Brain) , theme:
  • *:Before each night is done, / Their plan will be unfurled, / By the dawning of the sun, / They'll take over the world.

    • Verb

    (head)