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present participle and gerund of wane examples
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Becoming weaker or smaller. examples
Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth. examples
plural wanings
The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading. quotations examples
And boyhood is a summer sunWhose waning is the dreariest one —For all we live to know is knownAnd all we seek to keep hath flown — […]
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
The fact or act of becoming smaller. quotations examples
This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.
17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B.