Pawning vs Dawning - What's the difference?
pawning | dawning |
The act by which something is pawned.
* Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
Dawn.
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*: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)
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.
As verbs the difference between pawning and dawning
is that pawning is while dawning is .As nouns the difference between pawning and dawning
is that pawning is the act by which something is pawned while dawning is dawn.pawning
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless; she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her — that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets
dawning
English
Alternative forms
* daunyngNoun
(en noun)- never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning' s cold grey air