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What is a declension?

What is a declension? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
  2. (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
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Peter Milsom gave two very practical papers on spiritual growth and spiritual declension.
The declension of the adjective interrogative pronoun is like that of the relative one.
From the stretched canvas to the stuffed cushion, we switch over to the third declension of the pictorial spelling of Clic.
The author is careful not to mock nineteenth century religious sensibilities, nor to denounce commercialization as an example of declension.
The gender of the word alone is ambiguous, occurring in a declension denoting either males or females.
The fifth declension is unlikely because those nouns are all feminine.

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