sunrisingn.
/ˈsʌnrʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsənˌraɪzɪŋ/ Now rare (chiefly archaic or poetic in later use). Largely superseded by sunrise n.
1. The appearance of the sun above the horizon at daybreak; = sunrise n. 2.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > rise
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > light of dawn
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c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 214 To janes þo sunne risindde [Fr. vers le solail levant].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xiv. 482 Venus..warnyeth þat þe day comeþ anon and þe sonne rysinge [L. solis ortum].
a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 2883 Mury hit is in sonne risyng [c1400 Laud sonnes risynge].
1587 A. Golding in tr. Solinus Worthie Work xxxvii. sig. Q.iiii Hauing washed themselues with water they salute the sunrysing with such gestures as they can.
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie ii. sig. B8v The sun rising doth oftimes till them forth.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. C2v The most glorious sunne-rising is subject to shadowings and dropings.
1739 W. Comine Improvem. in Navigation & Philos. 39 This Motion of the Earth..makes the Days and Nights, the Evenings and Mornings, the Sun Risings and Sun Settings, and the Rising and Setting of the Moon and Stars.
1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed xxx You are young, and shall greet many a sunrising.
1942 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 10 July 14/1 The east was the determining point of the compass, probably because it was the place of the sunrising.
1975 Poetry May 99 Many colors in the cool air.., the sunrising!
2. The time in the morning when the sun appears or full daylight arrives; = sunrise n. 1a. Also figurative: = sunrise n. 1b.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] > sunrise or sunset
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1370 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 182 (MED) Yai sall be..atte yaire werke atte ye son risyng.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 9116 To morn at þe son risyng.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) cxxxvii. 205 That alle man shold be in the mornyng to fore the sonne rysynge alle armed.
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 344 Befoir the sone rysing in the morning.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 14 Bid him bring his power Before sun rising . View more context for this quotation
1600 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 96 At the son risinge we paste by Cape Sprott.
1647 T. Shepard (title) The Day-breaking if not the Sun-rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England.
1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 20. ⁋4 Where he may be seen from Sun-rising to Sun-setting.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 368 The wind used to blow hard from the mountains at sun-rising.
1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 207 The next morning, about sunrising, his sight was restored.
1856 E. H. Burritt Astron. 60 When a star rose at sun-setting, or set at sun-rising, it was called the Achronical rising or setting.
1946 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 17 Dec. 2/4 Life's sunsetting here is sunrising there.
2004 M. Riley & D. Huber tr. J. Barclay Argenis II. iii. xi. 501 The next day a little after sun-rising they would meet in the same place.
3. The region in which the sun rises; the east.Also with modifying word indicating the precise quarter in which the sun rises at a specified season, as equinoctial sunrising, winter sunrising.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun]
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms cvi. 3 Fro regiouns he gederede þem, Fro þe sunne rijsyng & þe goyng doun: fro þe north & þe se.
c1440 Prose Life Alexander (Thornton) (1913) 76 (MED) We seke to ferre towarde þe son rysynge.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 23 (MED) Tweye entrees and issewes þere moot be made, as it were tweye ȝates, þe oon into þe estwarde aȝen þe sonne risynge.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xi. 14 Or for till ettyll into Inde..Towart the dawing and son rysing to seyk.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 7 Nearest to the Sunne risinge and furthest from the Northe pole.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xlvii. 22 From the equinoctiall sunne-rising bloweth the East wind.
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vi. 581 We might perceive all those Plains towards the Sun-rising cover'd with Troops.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. v. xvii. 98/2 Bed-chambers for summer shou'd look to the South, the Parlours, to the Winter Sun-rising.
1758 C. F. Post 2nd Jrnl. 9 Nov. (1759) 41 There shall be an everlasting Peace with all the Indians, established..all over, from the Sun-rising to the Sun-setting.
1816 Panoplist Dec. 547 He..resolved to keep as directly to the sun-rising as he possible could.
1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xix. 110 The shadowed side towards the sunrising.
1950 Idaho State Jrnl. 30 Apr. 5/2 It [sc. the comet] is visible for a short time in the east, eight degrees north of sunrising about daybreak.
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attributive with the sense ‘facing or situated towards the sunrise; easterly, eastern’. Cf. sunrise n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §10 114 The vse of Printing and Artillerie..may easilie perswade vs, that those Sunne-rising Nations were the most ancient.
a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 13 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) The French and Spanish called the sun rising winds, East..and the sunne setting winds West.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Hen-House The Windows should be on the Sun-Rising side, strongly lathed.
1830 Fragm. Illustr. Holy Script. in Calmet's Dict. Holy Bible (ed. 5) IV. 93 The Hindoo conquerors placed it [sc. the Sphynx] in front of the Pyramids, looking eastward, that it might constantly recall the memory of the sun-rising land.
1877 Pop. Sci. Rev. 16 46 As seen from Venus or Mercury the could-belt..would extend across the middle of the earth's disc, but would not reach the edge, either on the west or sun-rising side, or on the east or sun-setting side.
1923 Lariat Mar. 112/1 The palefaces came in their white-winged canoes, Long ago, from the sun-rising sea.
2011 E. Moon Kings of North ii. 19 Sunrising side of the circle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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