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Declension
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What's The Definition Of Declension?
[n] a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"
[n] a downward slope or bend [n] process of changing to an inferior state [n] the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages Synonyms | Synonyms for Declension: declination | decline | decline in quality | declivity | descent | deterioration | downslope | fall | worsening Related Terms | Find terms related to Declension: abnegation | accidence | affix | affixation | allomorph | bound morpheme | cascade | catabasis | cataract | chute | collapse | comedown | conjugation | contradiction | crash | cutting | debacle | debasement | decadence | decadency | deceleration | declination | declinature | decline | decline and fall | declining | decrescendo | defluxion | deformation | degeneracy | degenerateness | degeneration | degradation | demotion | denial | depravation | depravedness | depreciation | deprivation | derivation | derogation | descending | descension | descent | deterioration | devolution | difference of form | dilapidation | diminuendo | disagreement | disallowance | disclaimer | disclamation | disobedience | dissent | dive | down | downbend | downcome | downcurve | downfall | downflow | downgrade | downpour | downrush | downtrend | downturn | downward mobility | downward trend | drop | dropping | dwindling | dying | ebb | effeteness | enclitic | fading | failing | fall | falling | falling-off | formative | free form | gravitation | holding back | IC analysis | immediate constituent analysis | inclination | infix | infixation | inflection | involution | lapse | loss of tone | morph | morpheme | morphemic analysis | morphemics | morphology | morphophonemics | nay | negation | negative | negative answer | nix | no | nonacceptance | noncompliance | nonconsent | nonobservance | paradigm | plummeting | plunge | pounce | prefix | prefixation | proclitic | radical | rapids | recantation | refusal | regression | rejection | remission | repudiation | retention | retreat | retrocession | retrogradation | retrogression | root | ruination | slippage | slowdown | slump | stem | stoop | subsidence | suffix | suffixation | swoop | theme | thumbs-down | turndown | unwillingness | wane | waterfall | withholding | word-formation See Also | category | class | decline | diminution | downhill | family | incline | inflection | inflexion | noun | side | slope | steep Declension In Webster's Dictionary \De*clen"sion\, n. [Apparently corrupted fr. F.
d['e]clinaison, fr. L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See
{Decline}, and cf. {Declination}.]
1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent;
slope.
The declension of the land from that place to the
sea. --T. Burnet.
2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency;
deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of
science, of a state, etc.
Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To
base declension. --Shak.
3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a
declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
4. (Gram.)
(a) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to
the grammatical cases.
(b) The form of the inflection of a word declined by
cases; as, the first or the second declension of
nouns, adjectives, etc.
(c) Rehearsing a word as declined.
Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original
form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the
variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings
(hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the
nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the
various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from
the noun's upright form, was called a declension.
--Harris.
{Declension of the needle}, declination of the needle.
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