Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The dawn; the beginning of the day, or first appearance of light.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the first light of day
Examples
“Whereby the dayspring, &c. The word dayspring {7} means the morning light, the aurora, the rising of the sun.”
“It is called the dayspring from on high because the light of the gospel shines forth from heaven.”
“The picturesque old English word 'dayspring' means neither more nor less than _sunrising_.”
“Equality that ever linketh friend to friend, city to city, and allies to each other; for Equality is man's natural law; but the less is always in opposition to the greater, ushering in the dayspring of dislike.”
“And often did she loosen the bolts of her door, to watch for the faint gleam: and welcome to her did the dayspring shed its light, and folk began to stir throughout the city.”
“One told me he was two years in chaotic darkness, without an inch of firm ground to stand upon, watching for the dayspring from on high, and after this long probation it shone upon his path, and he has walked by its light for years.”
“Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us”
“Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;”
“This was dayspring, indeed, to a lad in such great darkness.”
““Oh, dear sir!” said the landlady, “the natural day-spring rises in the east, but the spiritual dayspring may rise in the north, for what we blinded mortals ken.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dayspring’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 281 more...
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The Good Soldier
Words taken from The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
concatenation, vorticist, imagiste, auk, acquaintanceship, perforce, tapageu, jeunes, minuet, outsound, sedulous, goodheartedness and 105 more...
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Words.
Word.
Hoyden, claustrophilia, anergy, hadeharia, bluestocking, mawmsey, scoteography, sophomania, apanthropy, cuniculous, anaxiphilia, antifluke and 47 more...
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dawn
day begettings and beginnings
aurora, aubade, eos, morn, sunup, fall into place, click, sink in, heimdal, hued, crack, antelucan and 33 more...
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lyric words
windbound, dayspring, stickybeak, cantillation, liming, moonglade, brisance, volery, figurant, apolar, senium, halidom and 15 more...
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Vocabulary
crepitant, dashy, ropeable, pasticcio, volage, windbound, piecer, suffumigation, pastness, buirdly, proselytize, prosthesis and 9 more...
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In The Name Of All That Is Good And H...
The names of God, as found in the Bible. Inspired by the conversation on ancient of days.
ancient of days, everlasting father, prince of peace, alpha and omega, god with us, i am, good shepherd, abba, blessed redeemer, son of man, rock of ages, mighty fortress and 21 more...
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1102
genteel, ultimatum, melanoma, ceviche, schizophrenia, burly, fumigation, dry-beat, stickybeak, abnormous, dayspring, windbound and 25 more...
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001
sea-gate, short-breathed, rose-fever, fever, wanderlust, densely, sweetheart, quietsome, limn, blithely, aglimmer, exhausted and 49 more...
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Oh! That's kinda neat.
Random words that make me think, "Oh! That's kinda neat."
heterokaryon, protologism, mimivirus, adumbrate, abiogenesis, dayspring, pismire, defenestration
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