sunrise

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”).

noun

1. The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
   I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.
2. The change in color of the sky at dawn.
   Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?
3. (figurative) Any great awakening.
   It was the sunrise of her spirit.
   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

verb

1. (business, uncommon, transitive) To phase in.
   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