day-sunn.
/ˈdeɪsʌn/, U.S. /ˈdeɪˌsən/ Chiefly poetic and literary.
The sun, regarded as providing the light of day. Frequently figurative.
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1570 A. Golding tr. D. Chytræus Postil 442 Christ the day sunne of rightuousnesse [L. solem iusticiæ] rysing or springing from euerlasting out of the substance of the most high Father.
1574 A. Gilby tr. Test. Twelue Patriarches sig. Fi The daysunne of righteousnesse [L. sol iusticiae].
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ix. 131 God..commaunded the daysonne to bee [Fr. Que le Soleil soit], and it was done.
a1665 J. Quarles tr. J. Cats Self-conflict (1680) 69 Youth swiftly flies To hoary age, and with it Pleasure dies; Our day-sun set, and sable night come on, Our woes so come, and so our joys are gone.
1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 404 When the bright day-sun From nature's face the dark night-mist is clearing.
1928 Boys' Life July 35/1 The snow was crust-hardened by the night freeze; then the day sun and wafted zephyrs softened the scale.
2008 J. Swallow Day of Vipers 330 Both men had seen the blaze in the sky, the day-sun that had guttered and died far above them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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