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Fading [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigor; liable to perish; not durable; transient; as a fading flower.

Fading [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Decay; loss of color, freshness or vigor.

Fading [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.

Fading [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.

Fading [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.

2. An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.

Fading [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Fade

Fadingness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Decay; liableness to decay.

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2 KJV and 9 BSB verses contain “fading”

Psalms 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Proverbs 7:9

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.

Isaiah 28:4

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.

Jeremiah 6:4

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.

Jonah 2:7

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

2 Corinthians 3:11

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!

2 Corinthians 3:13

And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

1 John 2:8

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.