dying-out

A brief follow-up on Shawn's outstanding and challenging post here, my eye fell on the following sentence from the December 1957 issue of Caecilia, stated as a given, not argued for, just presented as a summary of the prevailing view - a view which today is held by a dying-out minority, in light of new scholarship and a changed culture.

Here was the ethos of 1957 2009

Re: Cookie Monster What do you do when venerating Pele becomes so prevalent that 80% of your young women end up being sacrificed in volcanos, and your population is on the verge is dying-out?

Cookies and the Craft Anne Johnson 2007

The extinction would in most cases be effected by a gradual dying-out, but in some instances there might have been a sudden destruction of a species of limited range.

On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

There is a dying-out of national feeling very simple in its origin.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

There is a dying-out of national feeling very simple in its origin.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

There is a dying-out of national feeling very simple in its origin.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

There is a dying-out of national feeling very simple in its origin.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

But it is in their mental characteristics that their difference from the lethargic, dying-out coast tribes is most marked.

Travels in West Africa 2003

The people were dying out, and had got used to the dying-out process, and had formed habits of life adapted to this process: there was the great mortality among the children, the over-working of the women, the under-feeding, especially of the aged.

Resurrection 2003

There is a dying-out of national feeling very simple in its origin.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965