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.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Becoming weaker or smaller.
my waning patience
(not-comparable) Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
fr décroissant (of the lunar phase) · oc descreissent (becoming weaker or smaller) · pl słabnący (becoming weaker or smaller) · eo malkreskanta (becoming weaker or smaller) · fr décroissant (becoming weaker or smaller) · pl blednący (of the lunar phase) · th แรม (of the lunar phase) · cs vytrácející se (becoming weaker or smaller) · es menguar (becoming weaker or smaller) · cs mizející (becoming weaker or smaller) · oc descreissent (of the lunar phase) · es menguante (of the lunar phase) · fi hupeneva (becoming weaker or smaller) · pt minguante (of the lunar phase) · eo malkreska (of the lunar phase) · pl malejący (becoming weaker or smaller) · es decreciente (becoming weaker or smaller) · de abnehmen (of the lunar phase) · nrf tchiyant (of the lunar phase) · oc amermant (becoming weaker or smaller) · la senescens (of the lunar phase) · la decrescens (of the lunar phase) · oc amenent (becoming weaker or smaller) · ca minvant (of the lunar phase) · cs ubývající (of the lunar phase)
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.
Meanings
(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of wane
From Middle English waning, waninge, wonunge, from Old English wanung (“waning; diminution”), from Proto-Germanic *wanungō, equivalent to wane + -ing.
Meanings
The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading.
the waning of her energy
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:
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 — […] 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
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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Translations (8)
oc descreissença (The fact or act of becoming smaller) · es mengua (becoming weaker or smaller) · fr diminution (becoming weaker or smaller) · oc apichoniment (The fact or act of becoming smaller) · oc aflaquiment (becoming weaker or smaller) · fr décroissance (The fact or act of becoming smaller) · oc apichoniment (becoming weaker or smaller) · es decrecimiento (The fact or act of becoming smaller)