Meaning of wane | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
2. A child.
   Scotland, slang
3. A house or dwelling.
   Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
4. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
5. The end of a period.
   literary
6. A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

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Examples

“1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, p. 3, In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o'clock, meridian -- his dinner hour -- it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing -- but, as it were, with a gradual wane -- till six o'clock, PM, or thereabouts; after which, I saw no more of the proprietor of the face, ….”

“1913, Michael Ott, The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wenzel Anton Kaunitz", His influence which was on the wane during the reign of Joseph II grew still less during the reign of Leopold II (1790-2).”

“Some French peasants also prefer to sow in the wane.”

“It was very dark, for although the sky was clear the moon was now well in the wane, and would not rise till the small hours.”

“The day was in its prime, the day was in its wane, and still, uneasy in mind and body, she slept on.”

“The situation of the Venetian party in the wane of the eighteenth century had become extremely critical.”

“2002, Peter Ross, Appraisal and Repair of Timber Structures, p. 11, Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane, or missing timber.”

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