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daunyng

daunyng is the obsolete spelling of dawning.

Meaning of dawning

Noun

dawning (plural dawnings)

  1. (poetic) Dawn.
    • Anone after cam the knyght with the two ſwerdes and balan his broder ⸝ and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym ⸝ & ſoo they two retorned ageyne in the daunyng of the day ⸝[…][1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ix”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book II (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 43, verso...
  2. The first beginnings of something.

Questions about daunyng

What is daunyng the obsolete spelling of?
Daunyng is the obsolete spelling of dawning.

Words near daunyng in the dictionary

  1. dauntlessness
  2. Daunton
  3. daunts
  4. Dauntsey
  5. dauntsome
  6. daunyng
  7. dauphin
  8. Dauphin County
  9. dauphinate
  10. Dauphinate of Auvergne
  11. Dauphinate of Vienne

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daunyng (page history and authors); dawning (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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