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Descent   /dɪsˈɛnt/   Listen
Descent

noun
1.
A movement downward.
2.
Properties attributable to your ancestry.  Synonyms: extraction, origin.
3.
The act of changing your location in a downward direction.
4.
The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors.  Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage.
5.
A downward slope or bend.  Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall.
6.
The descendants of one individual.  Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock.



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"Descent" Quotes from Famous Books



... without having to explain it. I glanced backwards, by and by, over my shoulder. He was standing where I had met him, half turned round, and looking after me. But when he saw that I was observing him, he hastily shifted about, and continued his descent ...
— Grey Roses • Henry Harland
... be it; one can get out of it, thank God! or at least, one can hope so, which shortens the time infinitely. Beside, the colonel might noise abroad my approaching descent into Cornwall, which would ...
— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue
... of under ten thousand all told, a large proportion is of British descent; and presently a positively surprising number of Union Jacks sprang forth from their hiding-places and fluttered merrily all over the town. Everybody was thankful that no bombardment had taken place; but many even of the British residents regarded with sincere regret the ...
— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry
... other to break; that otherwise, order and justice could not be maintained, and men would run from their wives, and abandon their children, mix confusedly with one another, and neither families be kept entire, nor inheritances be settled by legal descent. ...
— The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Defoe
... right, and that I have made a mistake; yet, as the bottle is opened and not bad, suppose we drink it before I make another descent to the cellar' ...
— The Poor Gentleman • Hendrik Conscience


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