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sunrise|ˈsʌnraɪz|
[app. evolved, through syntactical ambiguity, from clauses such as forto (= until), tofore, or before the sun rise, where orig. forto, etc. are conjunctions and rise a verb in the subjunctive; cf.:—
13..K. Alis. 5733 (Laud MS.), Men..token hem þer herberewe Forto þe sonne ryse amorowe. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxvi. (1495) D v b/1 They ben huntyd tofore the sonne ryse; Bodl. MS. lf. 136/1 Bifore þe sonne riseþ; orig. ante ascensum solis.]
a. The rising, or apparent ascent above the horizon, of the sun at the beginning of the day; the time when the sun rises, the opening of day. Also, the display of light or colour in the sky at this time.
c1440Promp. Parv. 484/1 Sunne ryse [A. sunne ryst], or rysynge of þe sunne. 1530Palsgr. 272/2 Sonne ryse, solail leuant. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. ii. 153 True prayers, That shall be vp at heauen, and enter there Ere Sunne rise. 1671Milton Samson 1597 The gates I enter'd with Sun⁓rise. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iv, By sunrise we all assembled in our common apartment. 1820W. Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 34 After sun-rise, the surface of the snow is apt to become soft. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 209 The glory of the sunrise augmented by contrast. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 599 The scarlet shafts of sunrise. 1908[Miss Fowler] Betw. Trent & Ancholme 157, I have never seen so rich and warm a sunrise.
fig.1823Scott Quentin D. x, The first dawn of the arts, which preceded their splendid sunrise.
b. attrib., as sunrise flush, sunrise-land, sunrise path; sunrise-gun, a gun fired at sunrise; sunrise industry, a new and expanding industry; cf. sunset industry s.v. sunset 3. Also quasi-adj. = easterly, eastern.
1809Campbell Gert. Wyom. ii. v, The sunrise path at morn I see thee trace. 1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 367/1 After the sunrise-gun had boomed. 1876‘Ouida’ Winter City ix. 273 With the sunrise flush touching her cheek. 1894Mrs. A. Berlyn (title) Sunrise-Land. Rambles in Eastern England. 1980L. C. Thurow Zero-Sum Society (1981) iv. 95 We do need the national equivalent of a corporate investment committee to redirect investment flows from our ‘sunset’ industries to our ‘sunrise’ industries. 1980Economist 23 Aug. 16/2 Those who try to shelter dying jobs in sunset industries, and thereby blight the prospects of growth of good jobs in sunrise ones. 1983Times 20 Apr. 21/7 The traditional ‘sunset’ industries are a pain in the neck for the Industry Secretary. However much he tries to brush them under the carpet in favour of the glamorous ‘sunrise’ sector of high technology, they persist in creeping back into the public consciousness. |