DECLENSION

n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet.

2.
n.

A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. Shak.

3.
n.

Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.

4.
n.

Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

5.
n.

The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.

6.
n.

Rehearsing a word as declined.

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