waning

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈweɪ.nɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

waning

  1. present participle and gerund of wane

Adjective

waning (not comparable)

  1. Becoming weaker or smaller.
    his waning strength
  2. Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
    the waning moon
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Etymology 2

From Middle English waning, waninge, wonunge, from Old English wanung (“waning; diminution”), from Proto-Germanic *wanungō, equivalent to wane +‎ -ing.

Noun

waning (plural wanings)

  1. The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading.
    the waning of her energy
    • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
      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 — […]
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
      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.
  2. 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.
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North Frisian

Etymology

Cognates include Föhr-Amrum North Frisian wöning.

Noun

waning n (plural waninge)

  1. (Mooring) window
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