Meaning of new dawn | Babel Free

Definitions

A new beginning; a fresh start; an important, promising turning point.

idiomatic

Examples

“I have consulted my pride, whether, after a rival's possession, I ought to ruin all my peace for a woman that another has been more blest in, though no man ever loved as I did: but love, victorious love! o'erthrows all that, and tells me, it is his nature never to remember; he still looks forward from the present hour, expecting still new dawns, new rising happiness; never looks back, never regards what is past, and left behind him, but buries and forgets it quite in the hot fierce pursuit of joy before him: [...]”

“In the fourth [volume], we view the decline of botany in the barbarous ages. In the fifth we find it riſing with the new dawn of literature; [...]”

“The reformation, however, produced in Iceland a new dawn of learning; and a few rays of that light which had blazed over Europe from the discovery of printing shed a gleam on this remote island; [...]”

“We might as well be in the middle ages, whereas our sky is flushed with the rosy hue of a new dawn—the dawn of justice—justice not only to man but to woman—justice not to some men and some women, but to all men and all women! [From the Chicago Times.]”

“Richard Beynon, who toured Australia in 1954, and whose play The Shifting Heart won the 1956 Sydney Journalists Club playwriting competition, hoped that a new dawn of Australian theatrical writing had arisen.”

“For all that this was an era in which the London sculpture world seemed to lose any sense of cohesive direction, the spirit of invention had its occasional triumphs that gave succour to those of nationalist opinion who expected this to be a new dawn.”

“More and more of us are living active lives as a consequence of life-saving treatments. [...] Impulsive negative responses to these new dawns are unbecoming of the human spirit. That so many of them are derived from religious beliefs should be, and is here, a concern to other religious believers who hold that the negativity is ill-founded.”

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