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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