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declension

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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the first declension in Latin Source: Internet

; 7. Image mnemonics : The information is constructed into a picture -- e.g. the German weak declension can be remembered as five '-e's', looking rather like the state of Oklahoma in America, in a sea of '-en's'. Source: Internet

1 —may end in –īs Third declension adjectives with three endings Third declension adjectives with three endings have three separate nominative forms for all three genders. Source: Internet

1 —may end in –īs 2 —may end in –e Third declension adjectives with two endings Third declension adjectives that have two endings have one form for the masculine and feminine, and a separate form for the neuter. Source: Internet

A definite article was realised as a suffix, that retained an independent declension e.g. troll (a troll) – trollit (the troll), hǫll ( a hall) – hǫllin (the hall), armr (an arm) – armrinn (the arm). Source: Internet

According to Gow, Housman could never remember his students' names, maintaining that "had he burdened his memory by the distinction between Miss Jones and Miss Robinson, he might have forgotten that between the second and fourth declension". Source: Internet

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