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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Progressively wasting away.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In medicine, suffering from tabes; wasting away; becoming emaciated.
  2. In botany, wasting or shriveling.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Withering, or wasting away.

Etymologies

  1. C 1890, from Latin tabescens, present participle of tabescere (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin tābēscēns, tābēscent-, present participle of tābēscere, to waste away, inchoative of tābēre, from tābēs, a wasting away. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and reclaim its literary property….”

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  • “... as Wolfe makes clear, a writer needs to be big and strong because a real writer is more warrior than artist: “At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property.””

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  • zweidinge wasting away; becoming emaciated or consumed May 17, 2009

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