Tabescent

Word TABESCENT
Character 9
Hyphenation ta bes cent
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Tabescent"

What do we mean by tabescent?

Progressively wasting away. adjective

In medicine, suffering from tabes; wasting away; becoming emaciated.

In botany, wasting or shriveling.

Withering, or wasting away. adjective

Wasting away, or becoming emaciated. adjective

Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.

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The word "tabescent" in example sentences

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…. ❋ Mailer, Norman (1998)

... 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.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

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