waning
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ.nɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to wane”), equivalent to wane + -ing.
- Becoming weaker or smaller.
“my patience is waning”
- Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
“the waning moon”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English waning, waninge, wonunge, from Old English wanung (“waning; diminution”), from Proto-Germanic *wanungō, equivalent to wane + -ing.
- The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading.
“the waning of her energy”
“And boyhood is a summer sun Whose waning is the dreariest one — For all we live to know is known And all we seek to keep hath flown — […]”
- The fact or act of becoming smaller.
“17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B. This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to wane”), equivalent to wane + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of wane