If you’re on your way down, you’re making a descent, whether that’s as a passenger in an airplane that's landing, or if you’re tumbling down a staircase you just slipped on.
The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Noun
the act of changing your location in a downward direction
Noun
properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
Noun
a movement downward
Noun
the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
Noun
a downward slope or bend
Noun
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual''s progenitors
n.
The act of descending, or passing downward; change of
place from higher to lower.
n.
Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion
from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon
the enemy.
n.
Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station,
virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to
a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to
the worse, etc.
n.
Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation;
lineage; birth; extraction.
n.
Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not
necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by
reason of consanguinity.
n.
Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or
sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
n.
That which is descended; descendants; issue.
n.
A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a
degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
n.
Lowest place; extreme downward place.
n.
A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
Descent
The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts.3.
If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must be born to certain woe.8.
No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself.9.
And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the descent and dust below thy foot.10.
The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Usage Examples
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
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Other Usage ExamplesAfter 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
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