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noun

Waning n. The act or process of waning, or decreasing. "This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses."

verb

Wane v. t. To cause to decrease. (Obs.)

Wane v. i. (past & past part. waned; pres. part. waning)

To be diminished; to decrease; contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon. "Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep."

To decline; to fail; to sink. "You saw but sorrow in its waning form." "Land and trade ever will wax and wane together."

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Etymology of 'Waning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... house in the light of the waning day - A shower of rice on the steps, and the shreds of a bride's bouquet. And then she drew the shade, to shut out the growing gloom, But she shut it into her heart instead. (Was that a voice in ...

— Poems of Purpose • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... The waning of the moon brought new songsters, with many a nightingale among them. A low bush near the plain was vocal during the full moon with the sweet but disconnected music of the yellow-breasted chat. The forest rang again and again with a wild, torrential strain of music that seemed ...

— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

... looked down on them from the summit of the knoll, which he had climbed on its westward side; a tradesman to all appearance, clad in a dusty, ill-fitting suit. So far as they could judge—for he stood with the waning light at his back—he was not ill-featured; but, by his manner of mopping his brow, he was most ungracefully hot, and Molly declared ever afterwards that his thick worsted stockings, seen against the ball of ...

— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... were passing slowly. Bertram's wound did not heal, and his strength grew less. The unseen powers that throng the air and watch our ways arranged about him the phantasmagoria of dissolution. It was the waning of the moon. A tender mist, which had long veiled a mountain crest, now unfolded its depths and was wafted away. A star shot across the welkin and was no more seen. Summer blossoms faded with the dying season. The music of the pine-boughs had a more melancholy cadence, and ...

— Atma - A Romance • Caroline Augusta Frazer

... The daylight is waning, the evening is here, The sun will soon set, the stars will appear. Singing, dancing, All hearts entrancing, We wait for the dawn of ...

— Old Greek Stories • James Baldwin

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