A downward slope or bend.
Process of changing to an inferior state.
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 - naked infidelity .
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- a sore declension , as all will admit.
16 You know that poem of Longfellow's, sir, that sounds exactly like the first declension .
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