Declension synonyms

dĭ-klĕn'shən

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atrophy
A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use:
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declination
(Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial body north or south from the celestial equator: it is used with right ascension to find an exact position in the sky
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decline
The process or result of declining, especially:
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degeneracy
A degenerate action
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degeneration
(Biology) The evolutionary decline or loss of a function, characteristic, or structure in an organism or species.
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deterioration
The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
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better (related)
Advantage
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descent
A downward slope
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declivity
A downward bend in a path
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fall
A marked, often sudden, decline in status, rank, or importance:
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downslope
A downward slope.
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decline in quality
process of changing to an inferior state
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worsening
A worse situation; an aggravation
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  • Aryan declension naturally disappeared with the loss of final syllables.

  • The book of Judges with its " monotonous tempo - religious declension, oppression, repentance, peace," to which Wellhausen 4 refers as its ever-recurring cycle, makes us familiar with these alternating phases of action and reaction.

  • Under the new covenant, sensual and carnal worship entering the gospel temple is often an evidence of spiritual declension.

  • The chief work of Choeroboscus, which we have in its complete form, is the commentary on the canons of Theodosius on Declension and Conjugation.

  • This often happens with nouns of the third declension.

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