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n. Linguistics In certain languages, the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in categories such as case, number, and gender.

n. Linguistics A class of words of one language with the same or a similar system of inflections, such as the first declension in Latin.

n. A descending slope; a descent.

n. A decline or decrease; deterioration: "States and empires have their periods of declension” ( Laurence Sterne).

n. A deviation, as from a standard or practice.

n. : A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

n. : The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.

n. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

n. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay

n. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal.

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n. Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

n. The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases

n. Rehearsing a word as declined.

n. A sloping downward; a declination; a descent; a slope; a declivity.

n. A sinking or falling into a lower or inferior state; deterioration; decline.

n. Refusal; non-acceptance.

n. In grammar: The inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives; strictly, the deviation of other forms of such a word from that of its nominative case; in general, the formation of the various cases from the stem, or from the nominative singular as representing it: thus, in English, man, man's, men, men's; in Latin, rex, regis, regi, regem, rege, in the singular, and reges, regum, regibus, in the plural.

n. The rehearsing of a word as declined; the act of declining a word, as a noun.

n. A class of nouns declined on the same type: as, first or second declension; the five Latin declensions. Abbreviated decl.

n. a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms

n. the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

n. process of changing to an inferior state

n. a downward slope or bend

"On the other hand the action of the state-religion upon the state, the condition of Al-Islam during the reign of Al – Rashid, its declension from the primitive creed and its relation to Christianity and Christendom, require a somewhat extended notice."

category    family    class    inflexion    inflection   

declension of the needle   

declensional   

declination    descent    slope    deterioration    decay    declinature    refusal   

retrogression    degeneracy    decadence    deterioration    retrogradation    atavism    declination    inflexion    /etc/skel    devel