sunrise

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Easter morning worshipers are invited to greet the dawn of this special day atop peninsular Florida's highest point, as the sunrise is heralded with music from the sanctuary's 60-bell Singing Tower carillon and the Lake Wales Chorale.

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  1. noun The event or time of the daily first appearance of the sun above the eastern horizon.
  2. noun An outset or emergence: the sunrise of classical art and sculpture.

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  • The first cold light of dawn is just stealing into the room, and everything is grey and mournful I look out at the sunrise--that fateful sunrise which will shine upon an unpeopled world. —  The First Men In The Moon
  • This morning, the sunrise was all purples and magentas and pinks and blues. —  rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
  • When the time for study comes, that study should be simple and sound--no Babel of words, but a wholesome knowledge of things; he may have learnt little, but he will know that little aright; a sunrise will be his first lesson in cosmography; he may watch the workman in his workshop; he may practise the carpenter's trade; he may read Robinson Crusoe_, and learn the lesson of self-help. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
  • He himself is up at sunrise, for the sunrise is to him signal to new life. —  The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
  • Yet this should be done in such a manner that the beginning of the day is not to be taken from midnight; nor from sunrise, that is, when the substance of the sun appears above the earth; but when the dawn begins to show: because then the sun is said to be risen when the brightness of his beams appears. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
 

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  1. Early modern English also sunnerise, sonneryse, from late Middle English sunne ryse; from sun + rise. Cf. sunrising, sunrist.
 

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