Definition of "day-dawn" in English

noun

1. (archaic) The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises.

   • 1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52, […] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath.