dawning
noun
daybreak; dawn.
dawnings
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pluralof dawning.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Such were the dawnings of zoological science after the revival of learning in Europe.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
They need to hear of new dawnings, of radiant to-morrows, of larger, brighter coming days.
From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett
They had learned already to rejoice in the dawnings as the purest and fullest revelations of Nature's exuberant largesse.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
The first dawnings of modern literature are seen in connection with the cultivation of the language of Provence and the productions of the Troubadours.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Aaron Walker
They beamed upon her, and Juliet began to feel the dawnings of pride in her own diplomacy.
From What a Man Wills by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
