All 3 Uses of
wane
in
Dubliners
- School and home seemed to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane.†
Chpt 2
- The golden sunset was waning and the air had grown sharp.†
Chpt 8 *
- He would say, alluding to Aunt Kate and Aunt Julia: "Ladies and Gentlemen, the generation which is now on the wane among us may have had its faults but for my part I think it had certain qualities of hospitality, of humour, of humanity, which the new and very serious and hypereducated generation that is growing up around us seems to me to lack."†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(wane) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) -- especially the part of the moon that is visible