单词 | redawn |
释义 | redawnv. intransitive. Of the morning, light, etc.: to come as a new dawn. In later use chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)] > again redawn1756 1756 Sophronia iii. 35 The Morn, redawning from the Eastern Clouds, With gentle Radiance first attracts our Sight. 1770 M. Foster Scarborough i. 17 Sabrina thus, with sweet surprize, beheld Her darkened charms redawn. 1835 J. A. Heraud Descent into Hell (ed. 2) iii. vii. 108 The slow light redawned. 1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 114/2 Peace and prosperity..redawned upon the tribes. 1865 S. Evans Brother Fabian's Manuscript 85 On lip and cheek The rosy life redawned with gradual glow. 1900 Living Age 20 Oct. 184/1 The evil time did not, however, last long; and on the accession of Huan Tsung in 713 the sun of prosperity re-dawned. 1912 A. Besant Spiritual Life iv. 75 Into Brahman such a Soul enters and gains its liberation,..having reached what the Hindu calls Moksha, in perfect unity with the One and with the All, coming out from that union only when the great Manvantara redawns. 1984 R. A. F. Thurman Central Philos. Tibet 148 Conventional objects themselves disappear temporarily..to redawn in aftermath illusory intuition, like the two moons of the drunk, or like the reflection of the moon in water. Derivatives reˈdawning adj. and n. ΚΠ 1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales I. p. lviii Hence, may redawning Nature open wide One Revolution, worthy Britain's pride. 1800 F. Lathom Mystery 84 His error being once pointed out to him by the redawning of his reason, he will not repeat an action which..is an equal degradation of the powers of his head and his heart. 1982 T. Gunn Passages of Joy i. 26 I gaze at him up and down and From his blue sneakers back to the redawning One-sided smile. 2002 L. S. Heatherly Last Human Spring x. 333 On ‘civilization's’ horizon is the redawning of our natural, human, spirit nurtureculture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1756 |
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