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Descent

British pronunciation/dɪsˈɛnt/
American pronunciation/dɪˈsɛnt/
Descent
[NOUN]
1

properties attributable to your ancestry

synonyms : extraction
origin
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2

a movement or action of coming or going downward

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3

downward movement

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4

the descendants of one individual

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5

a downward slope or bend

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6

the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

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Examples
1The question of the descent remained on his mind throughout 1598.
2When supplies ran low during the mountaineering expedition, the climbers realized that hunger breaks stone walls and undertook increasingly dangerous descents to forage for food.
3That looks descent.
4The Japanese royal family even claimed descent from dragons.
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