† vadingn.
Obsolete. rare.
The action or process of disappearing, declining, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > vanishing or disappearing
vanishingc1405
vading1570
disparition1597
disappearing1610
disparence1617
disappearance1625
discharge1626
evaporating1630
evanishing1633
vanish1650
disapparition1657
evanescency1664
evanescence1751
mizzle1789
evanitiona1797
evanishment1797
evaporation1824
occultation1825
vanishment1831
furling1836
disappearing trick1870
disappearing act1884
fade-away1911
fade-out1924
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > declining or falling off
declinea1327
fadea1400
paira1400
declining1481
vading1570
fall1590
hield1599
languishment1617
decay1636
defalcation1649
decidence1655
fall-off1676
falling off1761
fallaway1879
downswing1922
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 254/2 Ye lyke vadyng of water happened also in the floode of Medewaye.
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† vadingadj.
Obsolete.
Fading, passing away, fleeting, transitory.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective]
slidinga900
scrithingOE
henwardOE
swifta1225
short livya1325
passing1340
flittingc1374
shadowy1374
temporalc1384
speedfula1400
transitory?c1400
brittlea1425
unabidingc1430
frail?c1450
indurablec1450
scrithel?c1475
caduke1483
transitorious1492
passanta1500
perishinga1500
caducea1513
fugitive?1518
caducal?1548
quick1548
delible1549
flittering1549
undurable?1555
shadowish1561
fleeting1563
vading1566
flightful1571
wanzing1571
transitive1575
slipping1581
diary1583
unlasting1585
never-lasting1588
flit1590
post-like1594
running1598
short-lived1598
short-winded1598
transient1599
unpermanent1607
flashy1609
of a day1612
passable1613
dureless1614
urgenta1616
waxena1616
decayable1617
horary1620
evanid1626
fugitable1628
short-dated1632
fugacious1635
ephemerala1639
impermanent1653
fungous1655
volatile1655
ephemerousa1660
unimmortal1667
timesome1674
while-being1674
of passage1680
journal1685
ephemeron1714
admovent1727
evanescent1728
meteorous1750
deciduous1763
preterient1786
ephemeridal1795
meteorica1802
meteor1803
ephemerean1804
ephemerid1804
evanescing1805
fleeted1810
fleet1812
unenduring1814
unremaining1817
unimmortalized1839
impersistent1849
flighty1850
uneternal1862
caducous1863
diurnal1866
horarious1866
brisk1879
evasive1881
picaresque1959
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse Ep. Ded. sig. *ii The vaine and soone vadynge beautie of the worlde.
1577 J. Grange Garden in Golden Aphroditis sig. Rj My Lady fayre whose shape doth shine And glyster in my vading sighte.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxvi. 281 What els is Forme but vaiding Aire?
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 53 Thy form's Diuine, no fading, vading flower.
1661 Sir A. Haslerig's Last Will & Test. 2 What a vading breath, or light blast is this flash of Honour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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