Declension synonyms

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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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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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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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periphrastic (related)
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periphrasis (related)
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Declension Sentence Examples

  • Aryan declension naturally disappeared with the loss of final syllables.

  • At once he welcomed the new "power" with an unquestioning evidence which could be shaken by neither the remonstrances or desertion of his dearest friends, the recantation of some of the principal agents of the "gifts," his own declension into a comparatively subordinate position, the meagre and barren results of the manifestations, nor their general rejection both by the church and the world.

  • There had indeed been previous immigrations, but the passage from the desert into the midst of Palestinian culture led to the adoption of the old semi-heathenism of the land, a declension, and a descent from the relative simplicity of tribal life.

  • The differences in declension between Old Persian and ad are unimportant.

  • Jnfiexion.There is no trace of declension either in Castilian or in Portuguese.

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