(n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
(n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
(n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
(n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
(n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
(n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the declension in serum PB131I was less pronounced.
(2) The patterns learned could not be generalized to noun declension or verb conjugation, or broken into smaller words.
(3) The suffixes of the nominal declension in the Old Canary and Etruscan languages are very similar to the corresponding elements of the Sumerian and Ural-Altaic tongues.
(4) Genuine examples of contemporary graffiti, best preserved at Pompeii from AD 79, reveal that even native Latin speakers had trouble with the complexities of case and declension.
(5) The Chinese language, in addition to its lack of verb conjugation and an absence of noun declension, is exceptional in yet another respect: articles, numerals, and other such modifiers cannot directly precede their associated nouns, there has to be an intervening morpheme called a classifier.
(6) In the Chinese language, there are no verb conjugations and no declensions.