FALSEDAWN

false dawn

Noun

  1. A thin ambient light which precedes true dawn, typically by around an hour, in certain parts of the world.
  2. Something engendering premature hope; a promising sign which in fact leads to nothing.
    As Congo nears the 50th anniversary of its independence from Belgium on June 30th, Mr Chebeya’s murky death suggests that 2006 was a false dawn.


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