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Dawning vs Fawning - What's the difference?

dawning | fawning |

As nouns the difference between dawning and fawning

is that dawning is dawn while fawning is servile flattery.

As verbs the difference between dawning and fawning

is that dawning is present participle of lang=en while fawning is present participle of lang=en.

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)
  • fawning

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • , title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • servile flattery
  • * (Hannah More)
  • Xantippus found his ruin ere it reached him, / Lurking behind your honours and rewards; / Found it in your feigned courtesies and fawnings .