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declension

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FromMiddle Englishdeclenson,fromMiddle Frenchdeclinaison(Modern French:déclinaison), fromLatindēclīnātiō.Doubletofdeclination.

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declension(countableanduncountable,pluraldeclensions)

  1. A falling off,decayordescent.
    • 1845,Lydia Sigourney,Scenes in my Native Land,The Great Oak of Geneseo, page86:
      Refinement of feeling, intellectual tastes, and a noble hospitality, were among the features of his character; and hoary years brought no mentaldeclension,and drew no shade over the ardent affections by which he was distinguished, and in whose reciprocity, was his undeclining solace.
    • 1890,James George Frazer,The Golden Bough,volume 2, page268:
      The custom of rolling a burning wheel down a hill[…]might well pass for an imitation of the sun's course in the sky, and the imitation would be especially appropriate on Midsummer Day when the sun's annualdeclensionbegins.
  2. (grammar)The act ofdeclininga word; the act of listing theinflectionsof a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
  3. (grammar)The product of that act; a list ofdeclinedforms.
    a page full ofdeclensions
  4. (grammar)A way of categorizingnouns,pronouns,oradjectivesaccording to theinflectionsthey receive.
    In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the seconddeclension.Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.

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