Definition of Dawned

1. Verb. (past of ''dawn'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dawned

1. dawn [v] - See also: dawn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dawned

dawing
dawings
dawish
dawk
dawks
dawn
dawn chorus
dawn horse
dawn of a new day
dawn on
dawn patrol
dawn patrols
dawn phenomenon
dawn redwood
dawncer
dawned (current term)
dawned on
dawner
dawnered
dawnering
dawners
dawning
dawning on
dawnings
dawnless
dawnlight
dawnlike
dawns
dawns on
dawntime

Literary usage of Dawned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"When the day dawned Nicias led forward his army, 84. and the Syracusans and the allies again assailed them The troops on every side, ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1905)
"Thus, ere the following morning dawned, two thousand Frenchmen in Palermo had been slain. Yet this was only the beginning; for, spreading from La Conca d' ..."

3. Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland: With the Continuations by by Ingulf, Peter (1854)
"Day dawned at last, and having now recovered from my fit, the brethren shedding tears and overcome with languor, and many of them being miserably lacerated ..."

4. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"All the bright hopes that had dawned upon his youthful vision seemed in this occurrence as buried forever. Sadness for a time seated itself upon the throne ..."

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