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Meanings of declension in English
Portuguese
deterioração Catalan
deterioració Usage of declension in English
1
Architecturally the houses represent a declension from the purity of earlier Cambridge.
2
Protestantism in those lands is fast running to its final declension-nakedinfidelity.
3
A playful example of the declension of a Latin substantive is given thus:-
4
The declension of a gunman, if once it begins, is rapid and sure.
5
The period of achievement was no more extraordinary than was its swift declension.
6
Nor was it many ages ere these prognostications of declension were fully verified.
7
You want a 'civil and delicate declension' for the medical tragedy?
8
This was the first great declension which was to be permitted in the church.
9
He breasted the destructive flood of declension, and endured the buffeting of the waves.
10
A second sign of spiritual declension is indifference to the usual means of grace.
11
The wretch had been put to acquire a Latin declension.
12
At first, when I gave out a Latin declension, father was amused, and laughed.
13
And Janet delicately confirmed his assumption with a slight declension of her waving hat.
14
Now the causes of this declension, or falling away again unto iniquity, are many.
15
They are an hour and twenty minutes now- asoredeclension, as all will admit.
16
You know that poem of Longfellow's, sir, that sounds exactly like the first declension.
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Declension through the time
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