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Waning vs Woning - What's the difference?

waning | woning |

As nouns the difference between waning and woning

is that waning is the fact or act of becoming less or less intense while woning is window.

As an adjective waning

is becoming weaker or smaller.

As a verb waning

is .

waning

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Becoming weaker or smaller.
    • his waning strength
  • Especially of the lunar phase as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
    • the waning moon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.
    • the waning of her energy
  • The fact or act of becoming smaller.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings , and sometimes her eclipses.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * awning ----

    woning

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) woning, wuning, wunnunge, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place to live; a dwelling; a dwelling-place; an abode.
  • * 1852 , James A. Sharp, A new gazetteer :
    • Near it is a timbered house; an old inn close to the bridge is thought to be the "woning " of "Elynor Humming," the famous ale wife, whose "tunning" is celebrated by Hen. VII.'s poet laureate, Skelton .
  • * 1995 , Walter Hilton, The Goad of Love :
    • [...] of Christ's blood and ordained as a place and a woning for the Holy Ghost, and as of Christ able and possible for to come to endless bliss.
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
    • ----