Dawn vs Greking - What's the difference?
dawn | greking |
To begin to brighten with daylight.
* Bible, (w) xxviii. 1
To start to appear or be realized.
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To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
(countable) The rising of the sun.
(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
(uncountable) The beginning.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) The break (of day); dawn.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
*:And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke.
As a proper noun dawn
is sometimes given to a girl born at that time of day.As a noun greking is
(obsolete) the break (of day); dawn.dawn
English
Verb
(en verb)- In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdaleneto see the sepulchre.
- in dawning youth
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
Derived terms
* dawn onSee also
*Noun
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