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Declension

British pronunciation/dɪklˈɛnʃən/
American pronunciation/dəˈkɫɛnʃən/
Declension
[NOUN]
1

(in the grammar of some languages) a group of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives changing in the same way to indicate case, number, and gender

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2

a downward slope or bend

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3

process of changing to an inferior state

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Examples
1The apparition thwarts declension for the sake of an image.
2So my story is one both about a certain type of declension, but also about the organized bar.
3In Latin you have these endings that are called case declensions that tell you whether the noun is a subject, is an object.
4For those of us who studied Latin declensions in grammar school, veritas is our motto.
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