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dawning noun. ME.
[Alt. of DAWING after Scandinavian (Old Swedish daghning, Swedish, Danish dagning).]
The beginning of daylight; daybreak, dawn; transf. the east. Now chiefly poet. ME.
C. Kingsley Oh sing, and wake the dawning.
fig. The first gleam, the appearance, the beginning, (of something). E17.
W. H. Prescott The dawnings of a literary culture.