"day-dawn" meaning in English

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          "text": "1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52,\n[…] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath."
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          "ref": "1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 247:",
          "text": "At day-dawn I looked thro’ the key-hole of my Beloved’s door.",
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          "ref": "1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XII, stanza 41, page 13:",
          "text": "For like a day-dawn she was young and pure,",
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          "ref": "1850 May, Jonathan Freke Slingsby, “Welcome as Flowers in May”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 35, number 209, page 557:",
          "text": "Full many a score that lone maid counted o’er\nOf day-dawns and night-falls—a year to the day—",
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          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain, chapter 32, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford: American Publishing Company, page 250:",
          "text": "Before day-dawn, Judge Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind them, and informed of the great news.",
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        "The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises."
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        "(archaic) The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises."
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          "word": "dawn"
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          "text": "1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52,\n[…] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath."
        },
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          "ref": "1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 247:",
          "text": "At day-dawn I looked thro’ the key-hole of my Beloved’s door.",
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          "ref": "1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XII, stanza 41, page 13:",
          "text": "For like a day-dawn she was young and pure,",
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          "ref": "1850 May, Jonathan Freke Slingsby, “Welcome as Flowers in May”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 35, number 209, page 557:",
          "text": "Full many a score that lone maid counted o’er\nOf day-dawns and night-falls—a year to the day—",
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          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain, chapter 32, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford: American Publishing Company, page 250:",
          "text": "Before day-dawn, Judge Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind them, and informed of the great news.",
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        }
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        "The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises."
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        "(archaic) The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises."
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