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Webster 1913 Edition
Fading
Fad′ing
,Adj.
Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.
– Noun.
Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.
Fad′ing-ly
, adv.
Fad′ing-ness
, Noun.
Fad′ing
,Noun.
An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
“Fading is a fine jig.” [Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fading
FA'DING
,ppr.
1.
Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.2.
a. Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigor; liable to perish; not durable; transient; as a fading flower.FA'DING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
fading
fading
See also: fǎdìng
English
Verb
fading
- present participle 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
fading (plural fadings)
- The act of something that 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 […]
- 1854, Herman Melville, Israel Potter
- (obsolete) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Fading is a fine jig.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- delicate burthens of **** and fadings
- Beaumont and Fletcher