Day-dawn

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52, […] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath."

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"1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52, […] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath."

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