He does not pretend to know anything, except by inference, of the “dawnings of civilisation.
If our forerunners of eight or nine thousand years ago were in a noonday glare of civilisation, where shall we look for the much-talked-of “dawnings of history”?
What more directly concerns us is to note that a really high stage of mechanical development had been reached before the dawnings of Egyptian history proper.
However this may be, we cannot close our eyes to the interest which attaches to the first dawnings of art in the world.
Help the friends, increase their number, make their hearts sources of inspiration and their souls dawnings of light.
In the very dawningsof life occasions are presented for its exercise.
The first dawnings of that Light of peerless splendor had, as already described, broken in the city of Shíráz.
And this man will scarcely in any case have his mind prepared to hail the first dawnings of human improvement, and to regard all that belongs to the welfare of his kind as parcel of his own particular estate.
The experienced physician and accurate observer will be able to detect, before the mental alienation becomes apparent to others, the early dawnings of derangement.
The stimuli which we all more or less have at command, if properly directed, will often subdue the early dawnings of disease, which, if permitted to take its own course, would have assumed a most formidable character.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dawnings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.