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c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xlix. 2 (MED) Fram þe sonne arisyng vn-to þe going a-doune [L. ab ortu solis usque ad occasum eius].]

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xvii. 12 Þe hondis of hym weryeden not: vnto þe goyng doun of þe sonn [L. occasum solis].

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 12 (MED) The fame of this place schall attayne frome the spryng of the sunne to the goynge downe.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 18 Th'use of this Circle is right excellent, for by it we finde out the rysing, & goyng downe of euery Planet & Starre.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias ix. 22 Vpon the Saterday..about the going doune of the Sunne.

1760 Proc. Old Bailey 11 Feb. 621/1 I met the prisoner on the main road, about the going down of the sun.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 22 Mr. Winkle looked up at the declining orb, and painfully thought of the probability of his ‘going down’ himself, before long.

1867 A. D. Whitney Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life iv. 50 They watched the long, golden going-down of the sun.

1917 W. B. Yeats Wild Swans at Coole 15 From going-down of the sun.

1941 A. Thaler Shakespeare & Democracy iv. 99 The scene..is after the going down of the moon, which disappeared at twelve.

2010 R. Cohen Chasing Sun vi. 499 In nearly all cultures, the splendors that light up the horizon at the Sun's going down are celebrated for their beauty.