Meaning & use
descension
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The act or process of descending; a going down.
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The astronomer recorded the star's descension below the horizon.
His rapid descension in social status shocked his former colleagues.
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A rarer, more formal alternative to 'descent', occasionally found in older astronomical and literary texts.
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