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Pawning vs Dawning - What's the difference?

pawning | dawning |

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)
  • The act by which something is pawned.
  • * Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
  • 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

    * 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)