meaning of declension
1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
4. Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc. , according to the grammatical cases.
5. The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
6. Rehearsing a word as declined.
7. a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same or very similar inflectional forms; "the first declension in
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