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Meanings of declension in English

Catalan
baixant
Spanish
declive

A downward slope or bend.

    baixant
    Portuguese
    deterioração
    Catalan
    deterioració

    Process of changing to an inferior state.

          deterioração
          Usage of declension in English
          1
          Architecturally the houses represent a declension from the purity of earlier Cambridge.
          Your United States: Impressions of a first visit
          2
          Protestantism in those lands is fast running to its final declension-nakedinfidelity.
          The Young Priest's Keepsake
          3
          A playful example of the declension of a Latin substantive is given thus:-
          Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
          4
          The declension of a gunman, if once it begins, is rapid and sure.
          A Man Four-Square
          5
          The period of achievement was no more extraordinary than was its swift declension.
          The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailo...
          6
          Nor was it many ages ere these prognostications of declension were fully verified.
          Waverley Novels — Volume 12
          7
          You want a 'civil and delicate declension' for the medical tragedy?
          Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 / With His Letters and Journals
          8
          This was the first great declension which was to be permitted in the church.
          Sermons on Various Important Subjects / Written Partly on Sundry...
          9
          He breasted the destructive flood of declension, and endured the buffeting of the waves.
          Sketches of the Covenanters
          10
          A second sign of spiritual declension is indifference to the usual means of grace.
          Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians
          11
          The wretch had been put to acquire a Latin declension.
          The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 3
          12
          At first, when I gave out a Latin declension, father was amused, and laughed.
          Caleb's crossing
          13
          And Janet delicately confirmed his assumption with a slight declension of her waving hat.
          Clayhanger
          14
          Now the causes of this declension, or falling away again unto iniquity, are many.
          The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
          15
          They are an hour and twenty minutes now- asoredeclension, as all will admit.
          Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
          16
          You know that poem of Longfellow's, sir, that sounds exactly like the first declension.
          Tono-Bungay
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          Translations for declension
          Portuguese
          deterioração
          Declension through the time
          Declension across language varieties
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