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fading
- present participle and gerund of fade.
fading light; fading memory; fading reputation
2013 October 19, Banyan, “The meaning of Sachin”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858:With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.
Noun
fading (plural fadings)
- The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.
- (obsolete) An Irish dance.
1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene v:Fading is a fine jig.
- (obsolete) The burden of a song.
c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :He has the prettiest love songs for maids, so without bawdry, which is strange with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings
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