[f. FADE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the vb. FADE; also, the period of decay. Fading out: a gradual dying out.
1579. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 178. The fading of our dayes.
1617. Hieron, Wks., II. 233. Persons well affected, and commendably forward in the best things, yet discontinuing their attendance herein, and falling to a contenting themselues with any ministrie, presently manifest a kind of slaking and fading in good duties.
1709. Steele, The Tatler, No. 95, 17 Nov., ¶ 1. That fading in her Countenance.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., v. 90. We may call it an attenuation, a fading-out, a complete formalizing, of what was before solid, positive, substantial.
