daystar
Americannoun
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a morning star.
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the sun.
noun
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a poetic word for the sun
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another word for the morning star
Etymology
Origin of daystar
before 1000; Middle English daysterre, Old English dægsteorra. See day, star
Example Sentences
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So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.
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“The day is approaching,” He similarly has written, “when the faithful will behold the daystar of justice shining in its full splendor from the dayspring of glory.”
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Did they not, by God’s grace, shine out like the daystar from the horizons of Divine knowledge?
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Thou art the daystar of the heavens of My holiness, let not the defilement of the world eclipse thy splendor.
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Shouldst thou reflect upon that which We have disclosed unto thee, the daystar of guidance would shine resplendent before thee in this everlasting morn, and thou wouldst be numbered therein with the pious.
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