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1.
wāning(e
ger.
Additional spellings:
waninge
28 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Decrease or diminution in volume or extent, ebbing, subsiding (b) ?a curtailing of an implied quantity, reduction [quot. could also be construed as
woning(e
ger.(2)]; (c) the act of bringing…
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