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countable and uncountable, plural sunrises
The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon. examples
The change in color of the sky at dawn. examples
(figuratively) Any great awakening. quotations examples
Her face shone for a moment with new and unearthly splendour, her eyes lighted up with a very sunrise of joy.
1915, Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Storied Italy
It is in its zenith at mid-June, a very sunrise of Nature; and what with its forest and flower- fringed shores, its palace homes and parks, each with its white-winged or canopied yacht for skimming the lake at will, it at once occurred to me that Paradise had already been discovered and appropriated by Lake Geneva loiterers.
1898, F. R. Chandler, The Story of Lake Geneva, Or, Summer Homes for City People
third-person singular simple present sunrises, present participle sunrising, simple past and past participle sunrised
(business, uncommon, transitive) To phase in. quotations examples
In the first type (upper left quadrant), alternative industrial movements (AIMs) focus on the sunrising of new technologies.
2015, Matthias Gross, Linsey McGoey, editors, Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, Routledge