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mornlike

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Etymology

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From morn +‎ -like.

Adjective

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mornlike (comparative more mornlike, superlative most mornlike)

  1. (poetic) Resembling or characteristic of the morning.
    • 1852, Henry H. Tator, An Oration Commemorative of the Character of Thomas Jefferson, page 10:
      Whoever rises up in the morning, with a mornlike freshness of piety in thought, will praise the name of Jefferson, and through it the name of Jehovah.
    • 1901, Morrison Heady, The Double Night and Other Poems, page 102:
      The future from the star, / More mornlike than the present, from the sun.