dayspring
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dayspring
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at day, spring
Example Sentences
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Little old Uncle Saltiel worshiped him, his disreputable cronies idolized him, thought him a dayspring from on high, a light to lighten his people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Have you kept God’s common dayspring imprisoned among your garden trees and flowers?
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer
His solemnly low implorations were drenched with agonizing tears, and they only ceased when the dayspring came and drove the somber terrors of the night before it.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
We cannot afford, in one sense, to give up even the semblances and shows of religion, and these will survive until the new dayspring from on high shall supersede the necessity of their existence.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
His court was the goal of ambassadors, the dayspring of liberality, the horizon-point of hope, the end of journeys, a place where savants assembled and poets competed for the palm.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
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