Thesaurus: declension

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1. n. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
2. n. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
3. n. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
4. n. Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
5. n. The word/form">form of the word/inflection">inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
6. n. word/rehearsing">Rehearsing a word as declined.
7. n. the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
8. n. process of changing to an inferior state
9. n. a downward slope or bend
10. n. a class of nouns or class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/pronouns">pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
11. 1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet. 2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. Shak. 3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. 4. (Gram.) (a) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. (b) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. (c) Rehearsing a word as declined. Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings (hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from the noun's upright form, was called a declension. Harris. Declension of the needle, declination of the needle.
12. n:100 n. the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/inflection">inflection of nouns and class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/pronouns">pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages n. a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms