Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The rising or first appearance of the sun above the horizon; sunrise.
  • noun The place or quarter where the sun rises; the east.

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  • noun obsolete sunrise, daybreak

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Examples

  • From his vague expressions and disordered pulse, Elspat at first experienced much apprehension; but she used such expedients as her medical knowledge suggested, and in the course of the night she had the satisfaction to see him sink once more into a deep sleep, which probably carried off the greater part of the effects of the drug, for about sunrising she heard him arise, and call to her for his bonnet.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • I'ts nice and there such an atmosphere ! it makes think about a sunrising, that kind of silencious but so moving event .

    Nashii Glenda Larke 2008

  • The sultan of Sana's wife in Arabia, because Vertomannus was fair and white, could not look off him, from sunrising to sunsetting; she could not desist; she made him one day come into her chamber, et geminae, horae spatio intuebatur, non a me anquam aciem oculorum avertebat, me observans veluti Cupidinem quendam, for two hours 'space she still gazed on him.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A young man in [5284] Lucian fell in love with Venus 'picture; he came every morning to her temple, and there continued all day long [5285] from sunrising to sunset, unwilling to go home at night, sitting over against the goddess's picture, he did continually look upon her, and mutter to himself I know not what.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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