Past tense of dawe; indicated the breaking of dawn or the beginning of daylight.
From dawe with the regular past tense suffix -ed. This form appears in Middle and Early Modern English texts describing morning's arrival.
Medieval writers used 'dawed' poetically to describe sunrise, but the image was too specific—languages prefer flexible words like 'grew light' that work in more contexts.
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