Declension

·noun Rehearsing a word as declined.

II. Declension ·noun The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

III. Declension ·noun Inflection of nouns, adjectives, ·etc., according to the grammatical cases.

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

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

VI. Declension ·noun A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, ·etc.