All 11 Uses of
waver
in
The Two Towers
- There, near the fringe of the forest, tall spires of curling black smoke went up, wavering and floating towards them.†
Chpt 3.4wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- Though he could not catch or understand any of the words — he supposed the language was Entish — Pippin found the sound very pleasant to listen to at first; but gradually his attention wavered.†
Chpt 3.4wavered = was unsure or weak; or moved back and forth
- They wavered, broke, and fled back; and then charged again, broke and charged again; and each time, like the incoming sea, they halted at a higher point.†
Chpt 3.7
- The Orcs upon the Rock, hearing the rumour of dismay, wavered and looked back.†
Chpt 3.7
- a silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in a grotto of the sea.†
Chpt 3.8
- The misty lights wavered, dimmed, and went out.
Chpt 4.2 *wavered = weakened
- All light went out of them, and they stared bleak and pale for a moment into the clear unwavering eyes of the man of Gondor.†
Chpt 4.6unwavering = steadystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwavering means not and reverses the meaning of wavering. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing.†
Chpt 4.8wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- Frodo's hand wavered, and slowly the Phial drooped.†
Chpt 4.9wavered = was unsure or weak; or moved back and forth
- They wavered.†
Chpt 4.9
- He drew the sword, a flicker of blue in his wavering hand, but they did not see it.†
Chpt 4.10wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
Definition:
to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak