Wasten

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted ambitransitive

    "It is our wisdom to master this wastening incredulity: to overcome unbelief, by faith; and so the more easily this present world; making light of its permitted trials, and sitting loose to its possessions."

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waneweaken

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"It is our wisdom to master this wastening incredulity: to overcome unbelief, by faith; and so the more easily this present world; making light of its permitted trials, and sitting loose to its possessions."

Etymology

From waste (“empty, barren, dejected, dismal”, adjective) + -en.

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