westering

[ wes-ter-ing ]

adjective

1. moving or shifting toward the west:

   the westering sun; a westering wind.

westering

/ ˈwɛstərɪŋ /

adjective

1. poetic.
   moving towards the west

   the westering star

Word History and Origins

Origin of westering¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; wester ², -ing ²

Example Sentences

It covers the period from 1836, when Presbyterian missionaries Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spaulding, the first “westering” women, set out with their husbands for Oregon country, to 1890, when the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

Against the westering sun, the long shadows of the horsemen reached across the hill slope toward the flatlands where the small troop struggled onward.

From Literature

“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

The heat haze partly obscures distant vistas of Dartmoor and the Tamar/Tavy estuary, but we have a bird’s eye view south towards familiar landmarks – Viverdon Down, Sentry Hill wood, the curving hedges of medieval fields near Metherell, the wooded cleft of Cleave and St Dominic church tower, now side-lit by the westering sun.

From The Guardian

There was an air of expectation that touched everyone and everything, like the golden light of the westering sun.

From Literature