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The meaning of the word "Declension" in English


Declension n. : The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Declension n. : A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.

Declension n. : Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.

Declension n. : Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

Declension n. : The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.

Declension n. : Rehearsing a word as declined.

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Defination from the web:
declension is the occurrence of inflection in nouns, pronouns and adjectives, indicating such features as number (typically ... Further information: Old English declension and Old English pronouns ... 

synonyms
  (noun) deterioration
  (noun) decline in quality
  (noun) worsening
  (noun) descent
  (noun) declivity
  (noun) fall
  (noun) decline
  (noun) declination
  (noun) downslope
  (noun) category
  (noun) class
  (noun) diminution
  (noun) family
  (noun) incline
  (noun) inflection
  (noun) inflexion
  (noun) side
  (noun) slope
antonyms
  (noun) ascent


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