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dayspring

noun

Definition of dayspring

1 archaic : the beginning of day : dawn
2 : the beginning of a new era or order of things the dayspring of their youth— W. B. Yeats

First Known Use of dayspring

14th century, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for dayspring

Middle English, from day + spring

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