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noun

Wane n.

The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension. "An age in which the church is in its wane." "Though the year be on the wane."

An inequality in a board. (Prov. Eng.)

(Forestry) The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.

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 'Wane'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wane" Quotes from Famous Books

... There is unbounded suffering. There is the perpetual destruction of the individual. Even the moral growth meets obstacles often insurmountable; inheritance limits; circumstances betray; we see sudden falls and slow deterioration; whole races wane. ...

— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam

... from light and air This year is the hundredth year, 200 I feed my fire with a sleepless care, Watching my potion wane or wax: Elixir of Life is simmering there, And ...

— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti

... 13 the New York Tribune announced the death of Lucretia Mott, eighty-eight years old. Having known her in the flush of life, when all her faculties were at their zenith, and in the repose of age, when her powers began to wane, her withdrawal from among us seemed as beautiful and natural as the changing foliage, from summer to autumn, of some grand old oak I have watched ...

— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... mind on the beauty, and there'll be no room for comparisons. Most of them are unjust, precious few instructive. In this case, they spoil both pictures: and that scene down there rather hooks me; though I prefer the Dachstein in the wane of the afterglow. You called ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... time, captivating brilliance. Gloom was already beginning to gather round the Imperial household; the influence of Maecenas, the great support of letters for the last twenty years, was fast on the wane. In the words just quoted, with their half-sad and half- mocking echo of the famous passage of Lucretius,[8] Horace ...

— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail

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