Definition of "waxen" []

• Made of or covered with wax. (adjective)
• Pale or smooth as wax: waxen skin. (adjective)
• Weak, pliable, or impressionable: waxen minds. (adjective)

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• "What might be called the waxen period had set in, and the high colourless features seemed to be modelled in that soft, semi-transparent material."
• "The trees around a Shintô shrine are specially under the protection of the god to whom the altar is dedicated; and, in connection with them, there is a kind of magic still respected by the superstitious, which recalls the waxen dolls, through the medium of which sorcerers of the middle ages in Europe, and indeed those of ancient Greece, as Theocritus tells us, pretended to kill the enemies of their clients."
• "Bessy's features seemed to shrink into a kind of waxen quietude -- as though her face were seen under clear water, a long way down."