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Definition of dawning : of Dawn

Synonyms:

good morning, morning, break of day, sunrise, start, forenoon, morn, daybreak, first light, sunup, dawn, break of the day, dayspring, morning time, aurora, cockcrow

emerging, originating, initializing, germinating, beginning, initiating, inaugurating, forming, creating, conceiving, starting, springing, introducing, undertaking, budding, developing, hatching, embarking, preparing, stemming, sprouting, commencing, birthing, inducting

Usage examples:

• There was a gleam of wild, despairing terror in his eyes- revealing the dawning consciousness of approaching defeat, complete and terrible. - "'Firebrand' Trevison", Charles Alden Seltzer.
• It was in the gray of the dawning when James Henry stirred and opened his eyes wide. - "A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia", Amanda Minnie Douglas.
• They are two women and two men; tradition names them Night and Day, Twilight and Dawning. - "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti", John Addington Symonds.