Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Occurring before daylight; preceding the dawn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Before
dawn
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Examples
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Hardly anything could be more isolated or more self-contained than the lives of these two walking here in the lonely antelucan hour, when gray shades, material and mental, are so very gray.
The Woodlanders 2006
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Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.
Ulysses 2003
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How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Hardly anything could be more isolated or more self-contained than the lives of these two walking here in the lonely antelucan hour, when gray shades, material and mental, are so very gray.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
brtom commented on the word antelucan
"How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 21, 2007
whichbe commented on the word antelucan
adj. - pertaining to or occurring before dawn.
May 15, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word antelucan
JM enjoyed his antelucan slumber before it dawned on him.
November 26, 2009
qms commented on the word antelucan
uhtceare's long-suffering pawn
Must pray for the coming of dawn,
For fears antelucan,
With birdsong and dew can
Disperse like the mists of the morn.
January 19, 2016