"new dawn" meaning in English

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          "ref": "a. 1686, Thomas Otway, “[Letters.] To Madam —— [Elizabeth Barry].”, in The Works of Thomas Otway. […], volume III, London: […] [Buchanan M‘Millan] for T. Turner, […], (successor to John Mackinlay), published 1813, →OCLC, page 317",
          "text": "I have consulted my pride, whether, after a rival's possession, I ought to ruin all my peace for a woman that another has been more blest in, though no man ever loved as I did: but love, victorious love! o'erthrows all that, and tells me, it is his nature never to remember; he still looks forward from the present hour, expecting still new dawns, new rising happiness; never looks back, never regards what is past, and left behind him, but buries and forgets it quite in the hot fierce pursuit of joy before him: [...]",
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          "ref": "1767 August, “The Vegetable System: Or A Series of Experiments and Observations, Tending to Explain the Internal Structure, and the Life of Plants; […] By John Hill, M.D. Folio. 11 Vols. 1l. 11s. 6d. each. Baldwin. [book review]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal: […], volume XXXVII, London: […] R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, page 129",
          "text": "In the fourth [volume], we view the decline of botany in the barbarous ages. In the fifth we find it riſing with the new dawn of literature; [...]",
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          "ref": "1811, William Jackson Hooker, “Introduction”, in Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809, London: […] Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, […]; and W[illiam] Miller, […]; by J. Keymer, […], →OCLC, page xlix",
          "text": "The reformation, however, produced in Iceland a new dawn of learning; and a few rays of that light which had blazed over Europe from the discovery of printing shed a gleam on this remote island; [...]",
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          "ref": "1888 June 8, Charles H. Ham, quotee, “Notes”, in The Teacher: A Monthly Educational Magazine, volume I, number 7, New York, N.Y.: The Teacher, published September 1888, →OCLC, page 110, column 1",
          "text": "We might as well be in the middle ages, whereas our sky is flushed with the rosy hue of a new dawn—the dawn of justice—justice not only to man but to woman—justice not to some men and some women, but to all men and all women! [From the Chicago Times.]",
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          "ref": "1999, Stephen Alomes, “Grander Stages: New Seasons for Australian Playwrights and Actors”, in When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 119",
          "text": "Richard Beynon, who toured Australia in 1954, and whose play The Shifting Heart won the 1956 Sydney Journalists Club playwriting competition, hoped that a new dawn of Australian theatrical writing had arisen.",
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          "ref": "2007, Matthew Craske, “Post-Reform: The Fruition of Nationalist Strategems”, in The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720–1770, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press [for the] Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, page 176",
          "text": "For all that this was an era in which the London sculpture world seemed to lose any sense of cohesive direction, the spirit of invention had its occasional triumphs that gave succour to those of nationalist opinion who expected this to be a new dawn.",
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          "ref": "2010, R. John Elford, “Introduction”, in D[avid] Gareth Jones, R. John Elford, editors, A Glass Darkly: Medicine and Theology in Further Dialogue (New International Studies in Applied Ethics; 2), Bern: Peter Lang, →ISSN, page 1",
          "text": "More and more of us are living active lives as a consequence of life-saving treatments. [...] Impulsive negative responses to these new dawns are unbecoming of the human spirit. That so many of them are derived from religious beliefs should be, and is here, a concern to other religious believers who hold that the negativity is ill-founded.",
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        "A new beginning; a fresh start; an important, promising turning point."
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        "(idiomatic) A new beginning; a fresh start; an important, promising turning point."
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