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Definition of descension in English English dictionary
- The descent below the horizon of a celestial body
For in regard of time (as we elsewhere declare) the stars do vary their longitudes, and consequently the times of their ascension and descension.
- Descent; the act of descending
From a God to a Bull? a heavy descension. It was Jove's case.
- {n} a descent, a declension
- The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation
descension
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de·scen·sionPronunciation
Etymology
() From Old French descension.Resimler
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