dawnynge
Middle English
Alternative forms
- daweninge
Etymology
dawnen + -ing.
Noun
dawnynge (plural dawnynges)
- dawn
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book Two Capitulum ix
- 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
- Anon after came the knight with the two swords and Balan his brother / and brought with them King Ryons of North Wales and there delivered him to the porters and charged them with him / and so the two of them returned again in the dawning of the day.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book Two Capitulum ix
References
- “dauninge, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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