Menace vs Waning - What's the difference?
menace | waning |
a perceived threat or danger
* Dryden
the act of threatening
an annoying and bothersome person
To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
* Shakespeare
To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
* Shakespeare
To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
Becoming weaker or smaller.
Especially of the lunar phase as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.
The fact or act of becoming smaller.
* Bishop Hall
As verbs the difference between menace and waning
is that menace is while waning is .As an adjective waning is
becoming weaker or smaller.As a noun waning is
the fact or act of becoming less or less intense.menace
English
Etymology 1
First attested ante 1300: from the (etyl) manace, menace, from the (etyl) .Noun
(menaces)- the dark menace of the distant war
References
* “menace, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
First attested in 1303: from the (etyl) menacer, manecier, manechier and the (etyl) manasser, from the assumed , whence .Verb
(transitive'' or ''intransitive )- to menace a country with war
- My master did menace me with death.
- By oath he menaced / Revenge upon the cardinal.
References
* “menace, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----
waning
English
Adjective
(-)- his waning strength
- the waning moon
Noun
(en noun)- the waning of her energy
- This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings , and sometimes her eclipses.