declining

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɪˈklaɪnɪŋ/
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  • Hyphenation: de‧clin‧ing
  • Rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ

Verb

declining

  1. present participle and gerund of decline

Noun

declining (plural declinings)

  1. decline
    • c. 1572', John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament
      For they had no civil magistrate which might correct and reform those declinings when they happened.
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