Declension
n.- The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
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A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay;
as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. -
Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal;
as, the .declension of a nomination - Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
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The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases;
as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. - Rehearsing a word as declined.
declination of the needle.
