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单词 to wane faint, grey
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to wane faint, grey
3. Of light, colour, luminous or coloured objects: To decrease in brilliance or splendour; to become faint or dim. Also (nonce-uses) with pleonastic complement, to wane faint, grey.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (intransitive)] > become faint
wanec1000
fade13..
faint1430
vade1471
languish?1510
relent1531
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > grow dim or lose brightness [verb (intransitive)]
dima1300
fade13..
appal1393
duskc1430
pallc1450
cloud1555
pale1822
wane1832
film1844
dull1862
gauze1876
c1000 Rule of Chrodegang xix Æfter þissum tidum sona cymð se æfensang..& þæs dæges leoht þonne eac wanoð.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1107 Manege sædon þet hi on þam monan..mistlice tacna gesawon, & ongean cynde his leoman wexende & waniende.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iv, in Poems (new ed.) 16 The pale-yellow woods were waning.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. vi. 323 It has waned faint and again waxed bright.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge x. 295 The light waned without, it grew dusk, became quite dark.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xii. 185 The candles waned grey, and the great light streamed in through every crack and cranny.
1888 G. Meredith Reading of Earth 118 Remote they [sc. the stars] wane to gaze intense.
figurative.1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. i. 6 The royal tournaments..which were, however, waning from their ancient lustre.1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §8. 445 The old splendour of her Court waned and disappeared.
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