fading
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[edit]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 [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.
Noun
[edit]fading (plural fadings)
- The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.
- 1854, Herman Melville, Israel Potter:
- […] the rude earth of the wall had no painted lustre to shed off all fadings and tarnish […]
- (obsolete) An Irish dance.[1]
- 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.[1]
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- 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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[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “fading”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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