declension

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for declension

declension 🔊

declension : වරනැඟිල්ල

declension : වරනැඟීම

declension : පිරිහීම

declension definition

Noun.

  1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
  2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
  3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
  4. Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
  5. The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
  6. Rehearsing a word as declined.