westering
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of westering
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at wester 2, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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“Maybe it’s the classic American westering – keep moving west, keep moving west. This is as far as it goes. This is the edge.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2020
But, what with the industrial revolution, the westering course of empire and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, the Senate has seen the virtual extinction of gentlemen in the 19th-century sense of the word.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Golden Age shed its westering light over young Toynbee in the guise of a thorough classical training at Balliol, the most intellectual of Oxford's colleges.
From Time Magazine Archive
In its first year of operation, the canal carried 40,000 westering Americans to the frontier, shuttled the products of the West back to New York harbor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon a shoulder of the hills cut off the light of the fast westering sun.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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