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descendence

noun

Etymology

From Old French descendance, or descend + -ence.

  1. derived from *skend-✻ — “to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”
  2. derived from dēscendere
  3. derived from descendere
  4. derived from descendere
  5. inherited from descenden — “to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”
  6. suffixed as descendence — “descend + ence”

Definitions

  1. The act of descending

    The act of descending; descent.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA