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ˈday-spring
Daybreak, early dawn. Now chiefly poet. or fig.
c1300K. Alis. 4290 Day spryng is jolyf tide. 1382Wyclif Job xxxviii. 12 Whether..thou..hast shewid to the dai spring his place. 1526–34Tindale Luke i. 78 The daye springe from an hye hath visited vs. 1555Eden Decades 264 The day sprynge or dawnynge of the daye gyueth a certeyne lyght before the rysinge of the soonne. 1671Milton Samson 11 The breath of Heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, With day-spring born. 1791Cowper Iliad i. 588 The day-spring's daughter rosy palm'd. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 181 The driver declared that he must wait for the day-spring, before he could proceed another step. 1875Scrivener Lect. Text N. Test. 4 The thousand years and more which separated the Council of Nice from the dayspring of the Reformation. |