declension

Example Sentences

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My chief concern about this otherwise fantastic work is that it is set up as a kind of declension narrative, itself a popular American Christian genre as old as the republic.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2018

In eloquent sermons known as jeremiads, after the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, vigilant ministers warned their flocks against declension, or a decline in religious standards.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Not entirely of the past, of course; phone conversation lives on in roughly the same way that swing dancing lives on, or Latin declension, or manual transmission.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2016

I asked, after his declension of my shortcomings.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2016

He simply supplied the texts, aided with the translations, and rapped my hand when I failed at declension or agreement.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson