Declension is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECLENSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a system of cases and case-endings
• (in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) the variation of the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, by which its grammatical case, number, and gender are identified.
• the class to which a noun or adjective is assigned according to the manner of this variation
• a condition of decline or moral deterioration
• The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
• A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
• Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
• Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
• The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
• Rehearsing a word as declined.
• the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
• process of changing to an inferior state
• a downward slope or bend
• a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• noun, adjective, or pronoun inflection especially in some prescribed order of the forms; a class of nouns or adjectives having the same type of inflectional forms

Words related to DECLENSION

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Words that contain DECLENSION

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How to use DECLENSION in a sentence

• And now, in her declension, she was still perfect of speech.
• Is commerce of importance to national wealth? Ours is at the lowest point of declension.
• If the declension of English nouns is ever to be amended, it cannot be done in this way.
• The declension of a pronoun is a regular arrangement of its numbers and cases.
• Thus he introduces a new class, unknown to his primary division of the pronouns, and not included in his scheme of their declension.
• This doctrine gives us a form of declension that is both complex and deficient.
• Have the compound relative pronouns any declension? 22.
• The praise of such men is the strongest testimony that could be adduced to the declension of the Society of Friends in anti-slavery zeal.
• We have tried thus to sketch that declension into paganism on the part of much of the present world, of which we spoke earlier in the chapter.
• The new industrial order offered both the practical incentive and the theoretical justification for institutional declension from humane to primitive standards.
• Here is a major cause for the declension of the influence of Protestant church services.
• This is the commonest declension for masculine nouns, and it has fixed the normal plural for the modern English.
• The following examples will give a sufficient idea of the commoner forms of declension in the classical West Saxon of the time of AElfred.
• Beyond this there was, if not absolute declension, for he never wrote anything that could properly be called careless and unworthy of himself, yet at least no advance.
• Not knowing whether this was caused by the closing in of the clouds or the natural declension of the sun, Bob looked at his watch.
• We must remember, however, that it was the clergy and not the laity, who were the agents of the great declension.
• The clergy were the agents of spiritual declension in Germany, 76.
• From his time they date the declension of their nation.
• And the declension of Flaubert is one of the outstanding phenomena of modern French criticism.
• Let them, in short, be treated just as the Marshpee tribe have been, I think there will soon be a declension of morals and population.
• The propagation of life involved, then, declension from pure vitality, and to diffuse being meant to dilute it with nothingness.
• With rare exceptions this declension has not occurred and myths have been taken with a grain of salt which not only made them digestible, but heightened their savour.
• This was the first great declension which was to be permitted in the church.
• It is only because I have now to finish his story that I have mentioned my regrettable declension on to the staff.
• The expulsion of the Spanish vessels must certainly have been one cause, if not of the first declension of the exports, yet of their continuance in their reduced state.
• The price therefore of cattle, great and rapid as has been its past declension, must annually experience a still further diminution.
• In the Plural they are declined like regular Latin nouns of the First Declension.
• These are nouns whose forms are partly of one declension, and partly of another.
• Several nouns, while belonging in the main to one declension, have certain special forms belonging to another.
• Nouns of the Third Declension end in -a, -e, -i, -o, -y, -c, -l, -n, -r, -s, -t, -x.

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