All 4 Uses of
wane
in
The Return of the King
- Day was waning.†
Chpt 5.3
- All the lands were grey and still; and ever the shadow deepened before them, and hope waned in every heart.†
Chpt 5.3 *
- For the main wall of the City was of great height and marvellous thickness, built ere the power and craft of Numenor waned in exile; and its outward face was like to the Tower of Orthanc, hard and dark and smooth, unconquerable by steel or fire, unbreakable except by some convulsion that would rend the very earth on which it stood.†
Chpt 5.4
- For that they had found no cure; and indeed the span of their lives had now waned to little more than that of other men, and those among them who passed the tale of five score years with vigour were grown few, save in some houses of purer blood.†
Chpt 5.8
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