different between moonwise vs moonrise

English

Etymology

moon +? -wise

Adverb

moonwise (not comparable)

1. (nonstandard) Anticlockwise.

Usage notes

Generally used with regard to rituals and spirituality.

Antonyms

• sunwise

English

Etymology

From moon +? rise.

Pronunciation

Noun

moonrise (plural moonrises)

1. The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.
   • 1742, Matthew Towers (translator), The Lyric Pieces of Horace, Dublin, Volume I, Ode III, p. 17,^[1]

     Venus now re-assembles her Choirs of Virgins at Moon-rise, and leads the Ball.

   • 1804, Anna Maria Porter, The Lake of Killarney, London: Longman & Rees, Volume I, p. 23,^[2]

     Shooting, hunting, and cricket, were pursued with the eagerness of laborious occupations: often has he rambled about from day-break to moon-rise, in search of game; and then returned to Mr. ONiel’s, pale with fatigue, and sick with fasting.

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 7,^[3]

     Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.

   • 1909, Edith Wharton, “The Mortal Lease” V, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, New York: Scribner’s, p. 41,^[4]

     Do I not know, some wingèd things from far

     Are borne along illimitable night

     To dance their lives out in a single flight

     Between the moonrise and the setting star?

   • 1917, James Joyce, “She Weeps over Rahoon” in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume XI, No. II, November, 1917, p. 71,^[5]

     Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling

     Where my dark lover lies.

     Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling

     At grey moonrise.

Antonyms

• moonset

Translations

See also

• earthrise
• sunrise

Anagrams

• ionomers