wastenEtymologyFrom waste (“empty, barren, dejected, dismal”, adjective) + -en.verbTo make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted“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.”