dayspring

[dey-spring]

noun

Archaic.

1. dawn; daybreak.

dayspring

/ ˈdeɪˌsprɪŋ /

noun

1. a poetic word for dawn

Word History and Origins

Origin of dayspring¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; day, spring

Example Sentences

In the morning, at the dayspring, I wakened, shivering; lo, The white garden that blossomed at my feet Was a garden hidden in snow.

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The dayspring from on high had but put to flight the lesser stars.

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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.

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For in this hope she nurs'd them, and to know That Truth, while men regard a tetter'd page, Leaps on the mountains, and from age to age Reveals the dayspring's inexhausted glow.

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But there is no rose without its thorn, nor dayspring unheralded by the darkness.

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Related Words

• dawn