Etymology From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun + rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).
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The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
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:
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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:
Etymology From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun + rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).
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, →ISBN:
As I "sunrised" and breakfasted, I saw the party of men and women that had come to Horse Camp with the pack-train filing up the long slope below.1924, Claude Ewing Rusk, Tales Of A Western Mountaineer, A Record of Mountain Experiences on the Pacific Coast, page 301:
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Idiomatic, Rare To cheer up, brighten, or illuminate.
"That would be nice of you." She sunrised him again with her smile.1981, Hugh Zachary, To Guard The Right, page 63: