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Definition of Fading
1. Noun. Weakening in force or intensity. "Attenuation in the volume of the sound"
Definition of Fading
1. a. Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.
2. n. An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
Definition of Fading
1. Verb. (present participle of fade) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fading
1. an Irish dance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fading
Literary usage of Fading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"fading. The name of an Irish dance, and a common burden for a song. In the Irish
Masque performed before James I at court, an Irishman says, ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"They came back with shrill cries over the jutting shoulder of the house, flying
darkly against the fading air. What birds were they ? ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"OCR love ia not a fading earthly flower: Its winged seed dropped down from
Paradise, And, nursed by day and night, by sun and shower, Doth momently to ..."
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